postmortem

柯林斯詞典

postmortem /p??st?m??t?m/ (postmortems)

• 1. N-COUNT A postmortem is a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out how they died. 尸檢

  A postmortem was carried out to establish the cause of death. 進(jìn)行了尸檢以確定死因。

• 2. N-COUNT A postmortem is an examination of something that has recently happened, especially something that has failed or gone wrong. 事后調(diào)查

  The postmortem on the presidential campaign is under way. 對總統(tǒng)競選的事后調(diào)查正在進(jìn)行。

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