afterimage
noun [ C ] (also after-image) uk/ˈɑːf.tərˌɪm.ɪdʒ/ us/ˈæf.tɚˌɪm.ɪdʒ/
后像
an image of something that you seem to see when you are no longer looking at it or when it is no longer there
His eyes watered and swam with afterimages of the explosion. 他的眼睛满是泪水，漂浮在爆炸的后像中。
The ball streaked past him so fast that it seemed to leave a pale after-image in the dusk.
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- There is a phenomenon in which a red circular afterimage is produced by someone staring at a green circular patch for a minute or so, and then looking at a white wall.
- What you saw was almost like an afterimage left on the retina when a light goes out.
- In my head was an after-image of a pair of photographs from a textbook on physiology.
- The impression of her lingers, an after-image on your retina after the film has finished and the lights are still down.
- His work on Optics is a study of those visual sensations of which common men never become aware, such as blind spots, after images, and astigmatism.