中文翻译与英英解释

n.
1.(步枪的)照尺。
2.(对事件等的)事后聪敏，事后的认识 (opp. foresight)。
短语和例子
realize with hindsight 事后才懂得…。 knock [kick] sb.'s hindsight out ＝ knock [kick] the hindsight off sb. 〔美口〕压服某人，使某人畏缩。

understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindsight is always better than foresight"

例句与用法

However, hindsight is easier than foresight .
然而，后知总是比先见容易。

Ah, what suffering a little hindsight would have saved us .
唉，如果我们稍能借鉴于前车之覆，本来可以少吃多少苦头啊。

I opposed this at that time, but with hindsight it was a sensible economy .
我当时表示反对，不过事后一想，这是切合实际的节约措施。

But it is not hindsight alone that finds a natural, not solely a supernatural, sequentiality here .
但是在这里发现一种自然的（不单单是超自然的）顺序性，并非仅仅事后聪明。

With hindsight one can see on geometric grounds that the new "numbers" had to contain four components .
事后来认识，我们能看到在几何的基础上，新的“数”必须包含四个分量。

In hindsight the most important advance was made by heesch, who developed the method of discharging .
在后来的研究中认识到，最重大的进展是Heesch作出的，他发展了一种排除法。

Hindsight : increases the base amount of tiger effect
：增加老虎效应的基本量。

A review on the research on hindsight bias
模板理论与限制调节理论的比较研究

Most parents never have the benefit of hindsight
大多数父母都不能预测未来

I ' m willing to lower my hindsight
我愿意降低我的标准