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HSK
after / later / afterwards / following / later on / in the future
HSK 2
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back / behind / rear / afterwards / after / later / post-
HSK 1
after; behind / (at the beginning of a sentence) afterwards; since then
HSK 4
to fall behind / to lag (in technology etc) / backward / to retrogress
HSK 3
then; after that; afterwards
HSK 2
around / from beginning to end / all around / front and rear
HSK 3
hereafter / henceforth / in the future / from now on
HSK 2
from now on / in the future / time to come
HSK 6
after the event / in hindsight / in retrospect
HSK 6
early or late; first and last; priority / in succession; one after another
HSK 5
after this / afterwards / hereafter
HSK 5
behind / at the back / in the rear / behind sb's back
HSK 3
from now on / henceforward
HSK 7-9
after the event
HSK 6
final; last; ultimate / finally; in the end
HSK 1
soon after
HSK 5
in a little while; shortly after
HSK 7-9
90s generation
people born between 1995-01-01 and 1999-12-31 / Gen Z (abbr. for 95後|95 + 00後|00)
after a catastrophe / post-traumatic
next / later / after that
HSK 7-9
to lag behind
HSK 7-9
sometime / someday (in the future)
HSK 7-9
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
HSK 7-9
to stand back / to go back (in time) / to yield / to make concessions
lit. to punish those before to prevent those after (idiom); to criticize former mistakes firmly to prevent them happening again
(idiom) not want to be outdone / not content to lag behind
afternoon
postdoc; postdoctoral fellow
backward
regardless of what's before or after (idiom); rushing blindly into sth
leisure time (over a cup of tea, after a meal etc)
postnatal
after liberation (i.e. after the Communist's victory) / after the establishment of PRC in 1949
after this / afterwards / next
behind the scenes
HSK 7-9
(military) the enemy's rear / behind enemy lines
from then on / after / afterwards / thereafter
to consider past cause and future effect (idiom); to think over the past and future / to ponder over reasons and connection
HSK 7-9
to postpone / to defer / to delay
lit. to look forward and back (idiom) / fig. to consider carefully; to weigh the pros and cons / fig. to be overcautious and indecisive
after the war / postwar
postoperative; after surgery
backwards / facing back
after drinking / under the influence of alcohol
economically backward
(literary) to have no descendants; to have no son to continue one's lineage
henceforth / thereafter / subsequently
chronological
afterwards / then
after death / posthumous
finally
unprecedented and never to be duplicated / the first and the last / unmatched / unique
to follow everywhere / to always be there for sb at their beck and call
to deal with the aftermath (arising from an accident) / funeral arrangements / reparations
after this / from then on
to bring honor to one's ancestors and benefit future generations (idiom)
modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong)
from here on
to have no offspring / never to be seen again; unique
it's better to hurry at the start than to rush later (idiom)
behind
the mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind (idiom, from Daoist classic Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子); to pursue a narrow gain while neglecting a greater danger
prognosis
(proverb) a blade will get rusty if it is not sharpened; a man will fall behind if he doesn't study
thinking and pondering (idiom); to turn sth over in one's mind / to consider repeatedly
to follow the past and herald the future (idiom); part of a historical transition / forming a bridge between earlier and later stages
after that / then
to follow closely behind sb or sth (idiom)
to adjourn / to defer
to push back (progress, the times etc)
postdoc; postdoctoral fellow
from that / following from that / after that
after tax
to bring up the rear
the back of the head / (fig.) the back of one's mind
postsynaptic
to banish from one's thoughts / to ignore / to take no notice
the time after one's death / a place behind sb / (fig.) one's social background
later / afterwards


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