后见之明

Without the benefit of hindsight, do you think you would have been more or less optimistic about Soviet prospects than Colton was based on the evidence he had available?

在没有后见之明的优势下，你认为你个人对苏联的前景跟Coltion依据他所拥有的证据来推论比较起来是更为乐观或者是较不乐观的？

Overall, they do a good job, and you always miss things with the benefit of hindsight.

总体而言，他们做好他们的本身的工作，你也经常怀念后见之明的好处。

I know hindsight's 20/20, but I still don't understand...

我知道后见之明总是无比清楚，但我仍然不了解

Barack Obama used his inauguration speech to show us he has stomach for the fight ahead, and he expects the same of us. With hindsight, I guess it was dumb to think he was going to stand up there and announce he had found $700bn dollars down the back of the White House sofa, and called in a favour from the Almighty to have the ice-caps refrozen. Still. We want, we need the Obamas to make our hearts sing. And that's where Michelle comes in.

巴拉克奥巴马以他的就职演说来展现他对茫茫征途的雄心壮志，他期待我们也是如此，以我后见之明，想像他会站在那儿宣布他在白宫的沙发后面发现了7000亿美金，或是以神的口吻呼唤向神祈祷极地冰盖重新封冻是挺愚蠢的，然而我们仍旧想要奥巴马使我们心花怒放，这恰好就是为什么米歇尔走进白宫这个地方。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。