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回顾的,怀旧的,在后面的某时期的作品展览

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Retrospective \Re`tro*spec"tive\, a. [Cf. F. r['e]trospectif.]
   1. Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to
      prospective; as, a retrospective view.

            The sage, with retrospective eye.     --Pope.

   2. Having reference to what is past; affecting things past;
      retroactive; as, a retrospective law.

            Inflicting death by a retrospective enactment.
                                                  --Macaulay.

资料来源 : WordNet®

retrospective
     adj : concerned with or related to the past; "retrospective
           self-justification" [ant: {prospective}]

retrospective
     n : an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's
         life work