/'epɪlɒg; `ɛpə,lɔˇ/
(US epilog / -lR:g; -lR^/) n
(a) part or section added at the end of a book, play, film, programme, etc, as a comment on the main action （书、剧本、电影、节目等的）结尾部分, 後记; 跋.
(b) short speech or poem spoken by one of the characters at the end of a play （戏剧演出结束时由一个角色念的）收场白, 收场诗
*Fortinbras speaks the epilogue in Shakespeare's `Hamlet'. 在莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中, 由福丁布拉斯念收场白. Cf 参看 prologue.

n
[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French;Origin:Greek epilogos, from epilegein 'to say in addition']
[C]
a speech or piece of writing that is added to the end of a book, film, or play and discusses or explains the ending
[singular]literary
something that happens at the end of a series of events
→prologue
　a disastrous epilogue to his career