馬後炮

有讀者問「馬後炮」的英文是甚麼？我們知道 「馬後炮」 是 「後見之明、事後想來」的意思，與報章上的 Hindsight相似。例子：In hindsight, it would have been better to wait是「事後想來，等待一下會更好」，With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to say it was the wrong decision是「現在說它當時是錯誤的決定是不難的，這全是事後聰明」，With hindsight, I should have gone there 是「事後想來，我本來應該去那裡」，At the time it seemed like the best thing to do, but with hindsight I guess we should have done it differently是「在當時的情況下，那似乎是最好的方法，但事後想來，我們該換一種方法來做」。它的相反詞
是Foresight，即「先見之明」：He had the foresight to invest his money carefully是「他有先見之明，懂得謹慎投資」。