yesternight
英语
词源
来自中古英语 yesternyght，yisternight，来自古英语 ġiestranniht (“昨夜”)，等价于yester- + night。
副词
yesternight（无比较级）
- (古旧) 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，只是你父亲的神昨夜对我说：‘你要小心，不可与雅各说好说歹。’
- 1820，Walter Scott，章号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 […]
- […] 昨晚圣殿骑士穿过大厅时，跟他的穆斯林奴隶用萨拉森语讲了几句话；我听得懂这种语言，他是要他们今天早上监视你的行踪 […]
- 1847，Emily Brontë，章号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.
- […] 她扰了我日日夜夜，十八年以来——不断地——毫无怜悯的——一直到昨夜；昨夜我平静了。
- 1885，Richard F. Burton， chapter XXII，出自 The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night，卷号I，The Burton Club, 页号228:
- 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，只见它渐渐变大，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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yesternight（复数 yesternights）
- (古旧) 昨夜，前一夜