yesterday的意思|yesterday的解释-里氏词典

yesterday ['jestәdi]

n. 昨天

ad. 昨天

yesterday

[ noun ]

the day immediately before today

<noun.time>

it was in yesterday's newspapers

the recent past

<noun.time>

yesterday's solutions are not good enough

we shared many yesterdays

[ adv ]

on the day preceding today

<adv.all>

yesterday the weather was beautiful

in the recent past; only a short time ago

<adv.all>

I was not born yesterday!

Yesterday \Yes"ter*day\, adv.
On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the
affair took place yesterday.

Yesterday \Yes"ter*day\, n. [OE. [yogh]isterdai, AS. geostran
d[ae]g, from geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran, gystran,
yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G. gestern, OHG. gestaron,
Icel. g[ae]r yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis
to-morrow, L. heri yesterday, Gr. ?, Skr. hyas) + d[ae]g day.
Cf. {Hestern}. ????.]
1. The day last past; the day next before the present.

All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. --Shak.

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. --Job
viii. 9.

2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.

The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when
compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.
--Macaulay.

It said it terminated the agreement yesterday and didn't have any borrowings outstanding.
The KIO has earlier changed and stopped the flow of funds to Spanish assets. A spokesman for Grupo Torras, the KIO's holding company in Spain, said yesterday: 'We cannot make Prima viable in the present environment'.
Its stock, which went public at $21 a share in late April, closed yesterday at $24.125, off 25 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
Mr. Bush said yesterday he will talk about health care next Tuesday, but details aren't expected until a Feb. 6 speech, officials said.
But with yesterday's victory by Henlys in the battle of the motor traders - following hot on the heels of Manders' successful defence against fellow paint maker Kalon - the predators' lot is not proving an easy one.
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation yesterday announced its second investment in Chinese container ports in 10 days. The group is to take a controlling stake in the Yangtze river port of Zhangjiagang.
At yesterday's hearing, Mr Jim Leach, the ranking Republican member of the banking committee, said the present system was 'indefensible'.
Cambrian & General's capital shares rose one pence to 223 pence ($3.56) but the ordinary shares were unchanged at 136 pence ($2.17) in late trading yesterday on the London stock exchange.
The emergence of a new fault-line in Anglo-German relations on Wednesday night pushed the pound down to DM2.4770 in Asian trading, with the currency bottoming out at DM2.4680 in Europe yesterday.
Orange County's loss on its investment portfolio now stands at Dollars 2.02bn, Mr Tom Hayes, the newly appointed chairman of the restructuring team said yesterday, Tony Jackson reports from New York.
The stock, which proved immune to sharp declines in the market last week, fell 3 7/8 yesterday, to 36 5/8, even though the company reported higher earnings.
Former British prime minister Sir Edward Heath yesterday secured the release of three British prisoners held in Iraq, write James Whittington in Amman and Agencies.
Bargain-hunting by U.S. investors helped some floating-rate note issues recover yesterday in an otherwise featureless Eurodollar bond session.
In American Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Westamerica closed at $22.25 a share, down 75 cents.
Boeing said about 6.4 million shares of Argosystems were tendered by 12:01 a.m. EDT yesterday.
Until yesterday Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne, head of the Bank of England between 1973 and 1983, had been the second British director on the BIS board. The choice of title was less straightforward.
In composite New York Stock Exchange trading yesterday, Mesa shares closed at $11.875, down $1.
Indeed, UAL, in yesterday confirming Mr. Davis's proposal, provided virtually no details.
Westvaco's shares closed at $29.75, up 87.5 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday.
Salomon executives continued to maneuver over the changes yesterday.
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday MGM/UA shares fell $1 to $20.
In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, National Intergroup shares closed at $17.25, down 25 cents, as the market in general dropped sharply.
Anthony Caro has been awarded the 1992 Praemium Imperiale Prize for sculpture, it was announced yesterday in Rome.
The issue is expected to be sold at a spread of about 105 basis points above the yield on the Treasury 8 7/8% bonds due 2017, which were quoted late yesterday at 8.81%.
In a sign of caution that may grow, profit takers nicked 1/4 off Wal-Mart yesterday; the stock closed at 33 1/2 on 3.3 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
The company's stock, which had traded as high as $22.50 during the past year, slid to $13 after the FDA hearing and closed yesterday at $8.75, down 50 cents, in national over-the-counter trading.
Individuals who spoke with Mr. Milken as recently as late yesterday said that while some of his attorneys and others recommended that he accept the negotiated pact, Mr. Milken had still not made up his mind about whether to do so.
Individual stories played a major part in trading yesterday, writes Our Markets Staff. Alcatel was the main story in PARIS as investors reacted nervously to comments by Mr Pierre Suard, the chairman, that turnover and profits would fall this year.
The three months price closed at Dollars 1,510.50 a tonne, up Dollars 20 overall and Dollars 55.50 above Tuesday's low. Lead was also helped by an LME stocks fall as it bounded to a 21-month high yesterday.
To top it off, the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan yesterday may have become the first fragment of the Soviet Union to throw around its nuclear weight.

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