Aftercare is care or treatment that comes after the main event is over.

Aftercare這個字 is指的是 care or treatment照顧或治療，that comes after the main event is over在主要事件結束之後才出現的。

After hospital, aftercare is the help you get once you go home: visits, medicine, exercises, someone checking you are healing. After prison, aftercare is the help that follows release — a place to sleep, work, people who keep in touch, so life outside does not fall apart.

After hospital出院之後，aftercare is aftercare指的是 the help you get once you go home你回家之後會得到的幫助：visits, medicine, exercises, someone checking you are healing像是家訪、用藥、復健運動，或是有人來確認你有沒有在康復。After prison出獄之後，aftercare is aftercare指的是 the help that follows release出獄後的那些協助——a place to sleep, work, people who keep in touch住的地方、工作、還有保持聯絡的人，so所以 life outside does not fall apart讓外面的生活不會崩潰。

You also hear it after a tattoo, hair dye, or an operation at a clinic: the looking-after that comes next. Shops sometimes call extra help after you buy something “aftercare” too. The shared idea is care that follows.

You你也會 also hear it after a tattoo, hair dye, or an operation at a clinic在刺青、染髮，或診所做完手術之後聽到這個字：the looking-after that comes next指的是接下來的照顧。Shops店家 sometimes call extra help after you buy something "aftercare" too有時候也會把你買了東西之後額外提供的協助叫做"aftercare"。The shared idea共同的概念 is就是 care that follows「後續的照顧」。

Though actually, in American school English, aftercare often means the club that looks after children when the school day ends. In Britain that is usually an after-school club, and aftercare still sounds like hospital or prison. So always look at who is speaking.

Though actually不過話說回來，in American school English在美式的學校英文裡，aftercare often means aftercare常常指的是 the club that looks after children when the school day ends放學之後照顧小孩的社團/課後班。In Britain在英國，that那 is usually an after-school club通常叫做after-school club，and而 aftercare still sounds like hospital or prison aftercare聽起來還是比較像醫院或監獄的意思。So所以 always look at who is speaking永遠要看是誰在說話。