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As an adjective, retrospective describes something that looks back at the past, or that applies to things that already happened — a retrospective law, for example, changes the rules for something that already took place. As a noun, a retrospective is a big exhibition that shows an artist's or director's whole body of work from over the years, so people can look back at their career.
(形容詞)回顧的、追溯的；(名詞)回顧展
組成retro- (backward, looking back) + spect (to look, from Latin) + -ive (an ending for adjectives/nouns).
同家族的字
- inspectshares the Latin root 'specere/spectus,' meaning to look
- perspectivealso from the same Latin root meaning 'to look'
原始詞典資料4 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。
retrospectiveadj/ˌɹɛt.ɹə(ʊ)ˈspɛk.tɪv/
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Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
- While the pictures of what precisely unfolded after Cissé looked to tread on Evans are not entirely conclusive, the Football Association will surely pore over them on Thursday before quite possibly using video evidence to impose lengthy retrospective bans stemming from an incident unseen by Anthony Taylor, the referee.
- Following a retrospective review of patient records, the parents of eligible patients were contacted by telephone to provide information about the study.
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Looking backwards.
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Affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.
retrospectivenoun/ˌɹɛt.ɹə(ʊ)ˈspɛk.tɪv/
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An exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.
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。