yesterday是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /ad. 昨天； 前不久，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is the very best young man But, my dear Jane, if you remember, I told you yesterday he was precisely the height of Mr. Per-ry.
-- This is like giv-ing ourselves a slap, to be sure!and it was but yesterday I was telling Mr. Cole, I really was ashamed to look at our new grand pianoforte in the drawing-room, while I do not know one note from another, and our little girls, who are but just beginning, perhaps may never make any thing of it; and there is poor Jane Fairfax, who is mistress of mu-sic, has not any thing of the nature of an instrument, not even the pitifullest old spinet in the world, to amuse herself with. I was saying this to Mr. Cole but yesterday, and he quite agreed with me; only he is so particularly fond of mu-sic that he could not help indulging himself in the purchase, hoping that some of our good neighbours might be so oblig-ing occasionally to put it to a better use than we can; and that really is the reason why the instrument was bought or else I am sure we ought to be ashamed of it. We are in great hopes that Miss Woodhouse may be prevailed with to try it this evening.'
-- It is not every body that would have stood out in such a kind way as she did, and refuse to take Jane's answer; but she positively declared she would not write any such denial yesterday, as Jane wished her; she would wait and, sure enough, yesterday evening it was all settled that Jane should go.
-- I know what thorough justice you will do it, and have scarcely a doubt of its happy effect. I think we shall never materially disagree about the writer again; but I will not delay you by a long preface. We are quite well. This letter has been the cure of all the little nervousness I have been feeling lately. I did not quite like your looks on Tuesday, but it was an ungenial morning; and though you will never own being affected by weather, I think every body feels a north-east wind. I felt for your dear father very much in the storm of Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning, but had the comfort of hearing last night, by Mr. Perry, that it had not made him ill. 'Yours ever, 'A.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It seems like yesterday to me."
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "So she was very beautiful, was she, yesterday night?"
-- "Serizy told me yesterday that he never goes anywhere now; has he been to see you to-day?"
-- But yesterday our little daughter thought of no one but her mother and father, as we had no thought that was not for her; by to-morrow she will have become a hostile stranger.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- August 19, 17 Yesterday the stranger said to me, 'You may easily perceive, Captain Walton, that I have suffered great and un-paralleled misfortunes.
-- Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability!
-- For some time I was lost in conjecture as to the cause of this, but yesterday an idea struck me, and if it is well founded, I conjure you to avow it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Is it what we heard yesterday in Atlanta, Stu?
-- The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and theirneighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went offin the same cloud of dust that enveloped a frightened and fleeing Stuart prince, leaving William of Orange and hishated troops with their orange cockades to cut down the Irish adherents of the Stuarts.
-- And Gerald would scoldand bawl but, for all his remarks of yesterday about not wanting her to marry Ashley, he would be pleased beyondwords at an alliance between his family and the Wilkes.
-- Yesterday she had worked until she was worn out in the dusty old bam of an Armory draping yellowand pink and green cheesecloth on the booths that lined the walls.
-- In her top drawer was a handkerchiefjust like this, one that Rhett Butler had lent her only yesterday to wrap about the stems of wild flowers they had picked.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A handsome mince-pie had been made yesterday morning (which accounted for the mincemeat not being missed), and the pudding was already on the boil.
-- "Were it yesterday afternoon?"
-- It were yesterday afternoon" (with an appearance of mingled wisdom, relief, and strict impartiality).
-- "I accidentally heard, yesterday morning," said Wemmick, "being in a certain place where I once took you,--even between you and me, it's as well not to mention names when avoidable--""Much better not," said I.
-- "I heard there by chance, yesterday morning," said Wemmick, "that a certain person not altogether of uncolonial pursuits, and not unpossessed of portable property,--I don't know who it may really be,--we won't name this person--""Not necessary," said I."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Cake and wine; yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stron-ger.'
-- 'He is at work in the garden; the queer creature has been at the festival too, and only came home yesterday evening; he has likewise shown my children three golden apples which he has won.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and to-morrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next.
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