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yesteryear

/yes-ter-yeer, -yeer/US // ˈyɛs tərˈyɪər, -ˌyɪər //UK // (ˈjɛstəˌjɪə) formal, or literary //

昔日,昔日的,昔时,昔日之事

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : last year.
    • : the recent years; time not long past.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : during time not long past.

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Examples

  • Founded in London in 1766, art auction house Christie’s is a symbol of yesteryear—and yet the company appears to be on the cutting edge.

  • Today’s thru-hikers opt for lighter-weight footwear than the heavy waffle stompers of yesteryear.

  • Booze writers who’ve been around a while may pine for yesteryear, when at least the holidays were real, by which I mean they were occasions that could be found on calendars during which festive drinking might organically occur.

  • One of the NFL’s foremost historians, Joe Horrigan, is careful not to discount the quarterbacks of yesteryear despite the greater emphasis on the position today.

  • “The SPACs of yesteryear are nothing like the SPACs that are listing today,” Cunningham said Wednesday during the virtual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.

  • But the question is, could a thawing of relations result in a return to the mobbed-up action of yesteryear?

  • Or a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.

  • There were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.

  • I could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear.

  • But here the design resembled something from track practice on a muddy English lawn from yesteryear, rather than high-tech Adidas.

  • Forgotten were the nine cubs of the year before, and the quartettes and sextettes of many a yesteryear.

  • They belong rather more to the sort of music that has no more relation with yesteryear than it has with this or next.

  • The joke of yesteryear already shows frays upon its sleeves.

  • In that moment books and plays seemed like the snows of yesteryear.

  • Oh, well, all flesh is grass, and there is no grass of yesteryear.