yesterday

英 ['jest?de?; -d?] 美['j?st?de]

反義詞

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復數:?yesterdays;

1. 諧音“噎死他爹” --- 噎死他爹，是昨天發生的事兒。

yesterday 昨天

yester-，昨日，以前，day,天。

yesterday: yesterday: [OE] The yester- of yesterday (and of yesteryear [19], coined by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) was originally a free-standing word, meaning ‘yesterday’, but by the time records of it in Old English begin it was already locked into a collocation with day. Its ultimate source is Indo-European *ghes, which also produced Latin herī (source of French hier, Italian and Romanian ieri, and Spanish ayer), Welsh doe, German gestern, and Dutch gisteren.
yesterday (n., adv.): Old English geostran d?g; see yester- + day.

1. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday.: 他會為昨天公布的電話民意調查結果感到鼓舞。

2. Middle East peace talks in Washington showed signs of progress yesterday.: 昨天在華盛頓舉行的中東和談有了取得進展的跡象。

3. Army officers plotted a failed attempt yesterday to seize power.: 軍官們昨天奪權未遂。

4. Police investigating a ￡10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.: 調查涉及1,000萬英鎊的汽車保險詐騙案的警察昨天逮捕了16人。