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yet

/yet/US // yɛt //UK // (jɛt) //

但,然而,但是,却是

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : at the present time; now: Don't go yet. Are they here yet?
    • : up to a particular time; thus far: They had not yet come.
    • : in the time still remaining; before all is done: There is yet time.
    • : from the preceding time; as previously; still: He came here on a vacation 20 years ago, and he is here yet.
    • : in addition; again: The mail brought yet another reply.
    • : moreover: I've never read it nor yet intend to.
    • : even; still: a yet milder tone;yet greater power.
    • : though the case be such; nevertheless: strange and yet very true.
conj.连词 conjunction
  1. 1
    • : though; still; nevertheless: It is good, yet it could be improved.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Jones is a veteran of another beloved-yet-controversial animated series on Adult Swim, The Boondocks.

  • Really Big Coloring Books provided the Beast with images of a couple of the as-yet unreleased supplements.

  • Stephanie often takes surreptitious photographs of fellow commuters for a not-yet-realized blog.

  • But that visceral experience of the crowd as a capricious-yet-mindless entity has stayed with me ever since.

  • You have not been indoctrinated into unwanted-yet-inescapable tribal allegiances by your soccer-crazed countrymen.

  • A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet-yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

  • He showed none of the diffidence of the not-yet-accepted lover, eager to please, anxious about the future.

  • And then he proceeded to descend from what he had called the rarefied atmosphere with the speed of a yet-unopened parachute.

  • Then came the beating drum of intelligence, the radiation of its yet-uncontrolled thoughts.

  • Was Panek—and through him this as-yet-unmet leader—behind that attempt on Abrams' life?