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post-mortem

noun
🔊/ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːtəm/
🔊/ˌpəʊst ˈmɔːrtəm/
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  1. (also post-mortem examination)
     a medical examination of the body of a dead person in order to find out how they died验尸；尸体解剖 synonym autopsy
    • to do/conduct/carry out a post-mortem进行剖尸验证
    • post-mortem on somebody The post-mortem on the child revealed that she had been poisoned.验尸证明这孩子是被人毒死的。🔊🔊
    • They’re doing a post-mortem on her today.他们今天会对她进行尸体解剖。
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2, Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + post-mortem
    • carry out
    • conduct
    • do
    • …
    post-mortem + verb
    • reveal something
    • show something
    post-mortem + noun
    • examination
    preposition
    • post-mortem on
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  2. post-mortem (on something) a discussion or an examination of an event after it has happened, especially in order to find out why it failed事后反思（或剖析）
    • to hold a post-mortem on the party’s election defeat对该党竞选失败进行检讨
    3. Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Latin, literally ‘after death’.