PHRASE 回顾;回想 When you consider something in retrospect, you think about it afterwards, and often have a different opinion about it from the one that you had at the time. 回顾;回想
In retrospect, I wish that I had thought about alternative courses of action.
回想起来,我真希望自己当时考虑过其他做法。
It was a very strange feeling in retrospect — I was frightened, but excited at the same time.