postmortem

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postmortem /pəʊstˈmɔːtəm/ (postmortems)

• 1. N-COUNT A postmortem is a medical examination of a dead person's body in order to find out how they died. 尸检

  A postmortem was carried out to establish the cause of death. 进行了尸检以确定死因。

• 2. N-COUNT A postmortem is an examination of something that has recently happened, especially something that has failed or gone wrong. 事后调查

  The postmortem on the presidential campaign is under way. 对总统竞选的事后调查正在进行。

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