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yesterday

/yes-ter-dey, -dee/US // ˈyɛs tərˌdeɪ, -di //UK // (ˈjɛstədɪ, -ˌdeɪ) //

昨天,昨日,昨天的,昨日的

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : on the day preceding this day.
    • : a short time ago: Yesterday your money went further.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the day preceding this day.
    • : time in the immediate past.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : belonging or pertaining to the day before or to a time in the immediate past: yesterday morning.

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Examples

  • It’s our duty to make sure that their future is better than their past, and that their tomorrows are better than their yesterdays.

  • NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.

  • I spent time yesterday listening to the music you made, and looking at the art you created.

  • Justice League NYC met with the state attorney general and held a press conference yesterday at City Hall.

  • Mr Anderson Wheeler travelled from Tanzania where he works as a big game hunter to give evidence yesterday.

  • I played yesterday at lunchtime,” he says, “and after work, and then again this morning, and then today at lunchtime.

  • He had got his ticket of admission to the Casino, after arriving yesterday evening; but the Rooms had not pleased him then.

  • To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

  • The fleet of the enemy left the place where they last halted, and came in sight day before yesterday in the morning.

  • Why have I never heard until the day before yesterday of your suffering yourself to be cooped up in jail?

  • The issues of the day before yesterday's battle seem certainly to have hung on a hair.