yesterday
英 ['jestədeɪ; -dɪ]
美 ['jɛstɚde]
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1. 谐音“噎死他爹” --- 噎死他爹，是昨天发生的事儿。
- 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 dæg; see yester- + day.
- 1. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday.
- 他会为昨天公布的电话民意调查结果感到鼓舞。
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- 2. Middle East peace talks in Washington showed signs of progress yesterday.
- 昨天在华盛顿举行的中东和谈有了取得进展的迹象。
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- 3. Army officers plotted a failed attempt yesterday to seize power.
- 军官们昨天夺权未遂。
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- 4. Police investigating a £10 million car insurance fiddle arrested 16 people yesterday.
- 调查涉及1,000万英镑的汽车保险诈骗案的警察昨天逮捕了16人。
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- 5. Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning.
- 吉布斯于昨天凌晨被捕。
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