after the fact

基本解释

Another criticism is that we can often explain behavior after the fact using Freudian concepts, but we can rarely predict behavior.
另一项批评是，我们经常可以使用弗洛伊德的概念解释犯罪之后的行为，但我们很少能预测这种行为。
The larger problem, though, is the time it takes: the Consumer Price Index’s figures don’t come out until a month after the fact. In turbulent times, that’s too slow.
更大的问题是这么做花费的时间，消费者价格指数要滞后实际发生的一个月之后才出来，在动荡的年代这样实在是太慢了。

In fact,if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous nation after China and India.
Setting yourself up before the fact so that you can win an argument after the fact, so that you didn't--you just got unlucky.
在事实发生之前先给自己预设一下结局,你就能在事实发生之后赢得一场争论，所以你并不是不能做到-，只是不走运而已。
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I found all these databases of this information, although this was after the fact.
我发现了这些信息的数据库，尽管这有点事后诸葛亮。
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