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aftermath

（不幸事件後的）餘波 / 後果 (n.)

通常指戰爭、災難、死亡等不好的事件發生之後的「餘波、後續階段」。這裡指王后去世之後的艱難時期。

I wish I had known better

what to say to you in the aftermath.

I struggled to realize that my daughter had so quickly become a woman grown.