yesternight
英語
[编辑]詞源
[编辑]來自中古英語 yesternyght，yisternight，來自古英語 ġiestranniht (“昨夜”)，等價於yester- + night。
副詞
[编辑]yesternight (不可比)
- (古舊) 在昨夜
- c. 1598, William Shakespeare, “Act IV, Scene 1”, 出自 Much Ado About Nothing:
- What man was he talk'd with you yesternight
Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?- 昨天晚上在十二点钟到一点钟之间，
在你的窗口跟你谈话的那个男人是谁？
- 昨天晚上在十二点钟到一点钟之间，
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible[1], Genesis 31:29:
- It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- 我手中原有能力害你，只是你父親的神昨夜對我說：『你要小心，不可與雅各說好說歹。』
- 1820, Walter Scott, 章號 6, 出自 Ivanhoe[2]:
- […] when the Templar crossed the hall yesternight, he spoke to his Mussulman slaves in the Saracen language, which I well understand, and charged them this morning to watch the journey of the Jew […]
- […] 昨晚聖殿騎士穿過大廳時，跟他的穆斯林奴隸用薩拉森語講了幾句話；我聽得懂這種語言，他是要他們今天早上監視你的行蹤 […]
- 1847, Emily Brontë, 章號 29, 出自 Wuthering Heights[3]:
- […] she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years—incessantly—remorselessly—till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil.
- […] 她擾了我日日夜夜，十八年以來——不斷地——毫無憐憫的——一直到昨夜；昨夜我平靜了。
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, 章號 XXII, 出自 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, 第 I 卷, The Burton Club，第 228 頁:
- I came here yesternight for a call of nature and to do what none can do for me, when lo! a mouse came out of the water, and squeaked at me and swelled and waxed gross till it was big as a buffalo, and spoke to me words that entered my ears. Then he left me here and went away.
- 昨晚，我来这里解手，突然一只耗子从水池里钻出来吱吱乱叫，只见牠渐渐变大，变得像水牛那样肥壮，然后说了几句人话，丢下我走了。
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[编辑]名詞
[编辑]yesternight (複數 yesternights)
- (古舊) 昨夜，前一夜