rear view mirror

基本解释

One of the knocks on financial reform is that it is regulation through the rear view mirror.
金融改革受到的批评之一是，这是每次都是通过“后视镜”进行监管。
Her necklace looked like one of those Turkish “evil eye” things that all the cabbies in Hackney have hanging from the rear view mirror.
她的项链看上去有点像土耳其“罪恶眼睛”那样的饰品，所有哈克尼的出租车司机都从后视镜里挂上一个。
But unlike what you see in a rear view mirror, things from your past exist only in your mind and usually have little bearing on your present.
但是并不像你在后视镜里看到的那样，过去的事情仅仅存在于你的心中，通常对你现在的生活没有多大影响。

However, investors may very well be looking in the rear view mirror on this one.
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