a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one 续集;续篇 ■something that takes place after or as a result of an earlier event 结局;后果 this encouragement to grow potatoes had a disastrous sequel some fifty years later. 这种对种植马铃薯的鼓励在50年后产生了灾难性的后果。
常用词组 in the sequel
(Brit. formal)as things develop (英,正式)后来;结果
语源
late Middle English (in the senses 'body of followers, descendants and consequence'): from Old French sequelle or Latin sequella, from sequi 'follow'