hindsight的意思|hindsight的解释-里氏词典

hindsight ['haindsait]

n. 枪的表尺, 事后聪明

hindsight

[ noun ]
understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
<noun.cognition>
hindsight is always better than foresight

hindsight \hindsight\ n.
understanding the nature of an event after it has happened;
as, hindsight is always clearer than foresight.
[WordNet 1.5]

{20-20 hindsight}, {twenty-twenty hindsight} Perfect
understanding of an event after it has happened; -- a term
usually used with sarcasm in response to criticism of
one's decision, implying that the critic is unfairly
judging the wisdom of the decision in light of information
that was not available when the decision was made.
[PJC]

BIM also took physical control of many of the actual share certificates. With hindsight, the licensing of BIM by Imro in 1989, under the Financial Services Act 1986, was a vital step in allowing Maxwell access to pension money.
In return for a drop in working hours, the unions agreed to moderate their wage demands. With hindsight, the unions underestimated the cost of the fall in working hours.
Bifocused As an economic adviser, His acuity varies aplenty; His foresight is frequently faulty, But his hindsight is twenty-twenty.
In hindsight, GM and Daewoo executives acknowledge they seriously underestimated the obstacles posed to their three-continent car-making experiment by divergent cultures and business aspirations, not to mention the different languages spoken.
Once again, a clear majority favoured a low profile. With hindsight, Mr Delors believes he made a mistake.
"There might in hindsight have been compromises that might have been desirable."
He said that in hindsight hiring women to attend the parties was inappropriate, but not illegal.
By those standards, and with hindsight, Wilson was not a bad prime minister, certainly in the period 1964-70. In one area, he was unique in the post-war period: he departed of his own accord.
That's easy to say now; it's hindsight.
"In hindsight, this franchise would be even more valuable if we still had those," Mr. Grundhofer says.
"This is not a case where counsel has made a strategic decision that in retrospect, with the benefit of hindsight, appears to have been ill-advised.
Most do agree that stocks now are nowhere near the extreme "overvalued" levels they reached two years ago, so easy to spot now with the advantage of hindsight.
But one never has hindsight."
With hindsight, the expansion into Spanish brewing, especially the purchase of Union Cervecera, looks anything but a stroke of pure genius.
Rough and ready attempts to set Budget objectives without being too much influenced by temporary fluctuations are more likely to succeed than more refined cyclical adjustments possible only with hindsight.
"With hindsight, I'd say it was an enormous mistake," said a senior property analyst.
Despite good computers and software, the board lacked a clear idea of its cost of materials and the gross margin made on its six basic products. 'We thought we knew how much the products were costing us but in hindsight we got it wrong,' says Hopkirk.
A prosecution case strengthened through hindsight and the inability of the defense to establish an alibi were the chief reasons cited by lawyers for the jury's first-degree murder finding after five days of deliberations.
However, let us not fall into the "benefit of hindsight" trap and castigate every investment decision that went wrong, as the result of "mismanagement" or "imprudence."
Houses were not only somewhere to live. They became investments - and, with hindsight, unfortunately speculative ones.
SBC, it said, made its price offer with the benefit of hindsight.
It was - with hindsight probably unwisely - repealed in the interests of 'Keynesianism'.
Nevertheless, with the benefit of hindsight, the claim frequency numbers probably were misinterpreted: Annual totals increased modestly during the period the English rule applied, but nearly doubled within two years of repeal.
In hindsight, we should have," said Cheryl Russell, a lobbyist for the American Electronics Association, an influential trade group that advocates a 50% cut in CFC emissions by 1993.
In hindsight, of course, it would have been nice if the White House or its allies in Congress had worked out a strategy and gone on the offensive early with a clean proposal.
"In hindsight, perhaps it was not the correct thing to do." Mr. Barksdale estimated that he has earned $300,000 as a consultant on nine HUD projects since leaving government.
"With the benefit of hindsight, I think it would be crystal clear that it would be possible to move into this place with impunity and to move around without being challenged," he said.
"There may be some discussion in hindsight whether it was the most effective use of the firm's money at the time," a Shearson official privately conceded, adding that it is evaluating space needs as part of an overhaul.
"With hindsight, it would have been better to assume the risk we attributed to the (Japanese) market and we would have been rewarded with a much higher return," says Richard Foulkes, the portfolio manager for Vanguard's World International Growth Fund.
"In hindsight, it probably would've sold better if we had."

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