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    Posterior is a formal word meaning 'at the back' or 'coming after' — doctors and scientists use it a lot, like 'the posterior part of the brain.' In everyday, slightly joking speech, 'posterior' is also a polite, softer way to say someone's bottom/, instead of a ruder word.

    （正式）後方的、後面的；（口語委婉）屁股

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成From Latin: 'post' meaning 'after' or 'behind,' plus an ending that means 'more so' — so posterior literally means 'more behind.'

同家族的字

  • anteriorthe opposite Latin pair — 'ante' means 'before,' so anterior means 'at the front,' just as posterior means 'at the back'

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

posterioradj/pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/

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    anatomymedicinesciencesNearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.

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    anatomybiologybotanyNearer the rear or hind end; nearer the caudal end of the body in quadrupeds or the dorsal end in bipeds.

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    formalFollowing in order or in time.

posteriornoun/pɒsˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/

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    The posterior portions of the human body; especially, the buttocks.

    • Stephen reigned from 1135-1154, that nasty period of our history dubbed 'The Anarchy', when forces loyal to Stephen contested the throne with those of Henry I's daughter Matilda, who by rights should have been queen. Stephen, her cousin, plonked his own posterior on the throne.
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    mathematicssciencesThe probability that a hypothesis is true (calculated by Bayes' theorem).

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。