post.hu.mous
adj.（形容词）Occurring or continuing after one`s death:死后的：在某人死后发生或继续的：例句：a posthumous award.死后颁奖
Published after the writer`s death:作者死后出版的：例句：a posthumous book.作者死后才出版的书
Born after the death of the father:遗腹子的：在父亲死后出生的：例句：a posthumous child.遗腹子
来源：Middle English posthumus 中古英语 posthumus from Late Latin 源自 后期拉丁语 alteration perhaps influenced by Latin humus [earth] or hum3re [to bury] 可能受 拉丁语 humus的影响 [泥土] 或 hum3re [埋葬] of postumus [superlative of] posterus [coming after] * see posterior postumus的变化 [] posterus的最高级 [在…之后来临的] *参见 posterior
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post.humously
adv.（副词）post.humousness
n.（名词）<注释>The wordposthumous is associated with death, both in meaning and in form. Our word goes back to the Latin wordpostumus, meaning .last born, born after the death of one`s father, born after the making of a will,. and .last, final..Postumus was largely used with respect to events occurring after death but not exclusively so,since the word was simply one of the superlative forms of the adverbpost, .subsequently, afterward.. Because of its use in connection with death,however, later Latin writers decided that the last part of the word must have to do withhumus, .earth,. or hum3re, .to bury,. and began spelling the wordposthumus. This form of the Latin word was borrowed into English,being first recorded in a work composed before 4'4.Perhaps the most telling use of the word appears in the poet Robert Southey`s comment on the rewards of an author:.It was well we should be contented with posthumous fame, but impossible to be so with posthumous bread and cheese..Posthumous 这个词在意义和形式上都与死亡有关。 英语中这个词可追溯到拉丁语postumus ， 意为.最后生的，父亲死后生的，立遗嘱之后出生的.和.最后的，最终的。.Postumus 绝大多数情况下用来指死后所发生的事情， 但也并非仅此一种用法，因为这个词只是意为.随后地，后来地.副词post 的最高级形式之一。 由于其用法与死亡有关，因此后来的拉丁语作者们决定该词的后半部分应与humus .土地.或 humare .埋葬.有关， 并开始将这个词拼写成posthumus。 这个拉丁词的拼写形式后来被借用到英语中，在英语中首次记录于4'4年前所著的一部作品中。也许这个词最显著的使用出现在诗人罗伯特·骚塞对一个作者所得奖励的评论中：.我们满足于死后得到的声名，而不可能满足于死后所得到面包与奶酪，这样很好.
