源自中古英語 yesterday、yisterday、ȝesterdai、ȝisterdai,源自古英語 ġiestrandæġ、ġister dæġ、ġestor dæġ、ġeostran dæġ,等同於yester- + day。对比低地蘇格蘭語 yisterday、yesterday (“昨天”)、哥特語 𐌲𐌹𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌹𐍃 (gistradagis, “明天”, 副詞)。也对比關係更遠的荷蘭語 gisteren、德語 gestern。
yesterday (複數 yesterdays)
- 昨天
Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.- 今天是昨天的孩子、明天的家長。
Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.- 昨天下雨,但今早開始轉雪。
1899, Hughes Mearns, Antigonish:Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away …- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (比喻義) 過去
- yesterday's technology ― 過去的技術
The worker of today is different from that of yesterday.- 如今的工人和過去的相比,已經大不相同。
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, 出自 Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, 出版於 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
2013年6月22日, “Snakes and ladders”, 出自 The Economist, 卷 407, 期 8841,頁號 76:Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- 複數 yesterdays 不常用,使用情境一般是詩歌語,用“過去”義,如“all our yesterdays have come back to haunt us”。
- 帶 /ˈjɪ-/ 音的讀法現在屬於方言,但過去標準語也使用。如作家、發音研究者托馬斯·謝里丹就曾在著作中表示不推薦該種讀法。[2]
yesterday (不可比)
- 昨天
- 近義詞:(愛爾蘭) the last day
- 反義詞:tomorrow
I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish it this evening.- 昨天我就開始看這部影片了,但直到今晚才看完。
- (非正式) 盡快
I want this done yesterday!- 我要求趕快完成!
Thomas Sheridan (1790年) A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning[1],第 2 卷,C. Dilly
- ȝusterday, ȝurstendæi, ȝisterday, yisterday, ȝesterdai, yusterday
源自古英語 ġiestrandæġ;等同於yester- + day。
- 國際音標(幫助):/ˈjɛstərdɛi/, /ˈjistərdɛi/, /ˈjustərdɛi/