Yesterday

(noun.) the day immediately before today; 'it was in yesterday's newspapers'.

(noun.) the recent past; 'yesterday's solutions are not good enough'; 'we shared many yesterdays'.

(adv.) on the day preceding today; 'yesterday the weather was beautiful'.

(adv.) in the recent past; only a short time ago; 'I was not born yesterday!'.

整理:雪莉

• Dating from three o'clock yesterday. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• But the fust was put underneath the door, and this come by the post, day afore yesterday. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But there has been yesterday and the night before and last night. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• That you had given a hundred pounds yesterday was with him no reason why you should not give two hundred to-day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Only yesterday, I opened my ROBINSON CRUSOE at that place. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I was a saying so, you see, to my young man yesterday when you came into the shop. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• And you found your way to this place yesterday? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I had a bright idea yesterday, and this is it. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• That's very kind of him, considering the battering I gave him yesterday. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Two young ladies have been staying here, but they went away yesterday, in despair; and no wonder. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mrs. Todd is right about your looking too particular, yesterday, all in white. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I did not like it yesterday. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He spoke of a book yesterday which he had, and which I wanted to see. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• My friends, says he, I remember a duty unfulfilled yesterday. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But nobody can recover his yesterdays no matter how much he abuses the clock, and no man can expunge the memory of railroads though all the stations and engines were dismantled. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

整理:梅纳德