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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- M'Choakumchild reported that she had a very dense head for figures; that, once possessed with a general idea of the globe, she took the smallest conceivable interest in its exact measurements; that she was extremely slow in the acquisition of dates, unless some pitiful incident happened to be connected therewith; that she would burst into tears on being required (by the mental process) immediately to name the cost of two hundred and forty-seven muslin caps at fourteen-pence halfpenny; that she was as low down, in the school, as low could be; that after eight weeks of induction into the elements of Political Economy, she had only yesterday been set right by a prattler three feet high, for returning to the question, 'What is the first principle of this science?'
-- 'Calling at the Bank yesterday evening, for Mr. Bounderby's address, I found an ancient lady there, who seems to entertain great admiration for your sister,' observed Mr. James Harthouse, throwing away the last small remnant of the cigar he had now smoked out.
-- Yesterday afternoon, at the close of business hours, everything was put away as usual.
-- I had the pleasure of watching your house yesterday morning, and following you here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the light of yesterday week, the light of six months ago, the light of six years ago.
-- I made acquaintance with it only yesterday afternoon.'
-- 'Sir,' returned that faithful housekeeper, having taken him into the parlour and closed the door; 'if ever I saw the led away and deluded child in my life, I saw her identically in the dusk of yesterday evening.'
-- 'It was only yesterday evening that I came to London with my brother.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thursday Yesterday was a quiet day spent in teaching, sewing, and writing in my little room, which is very cozy, with a light and fire.
-- Why, it seems only yesterday that I was buttoning Amy's pinafore, and pulling your hair when you teased.
-- She is very proud of him, just as he is, and said yesterday that she thought pov-erty was a beautiful thing.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- Clear old prime Nantucket water; which, when three years afloat, the Nantucketer, in the Pacific, prefers to drink before the brackish fluid, but yesterday rafted off in casks, from the Peruvian or Indian streams.
-- "He says, Monsieur," said the Guernsey-man, in French, turning to his captain, "that only yesterday his ship spoke a vessel, whose captain and chief-mate, with six sailors, had all died of a fever caught from a blasted whale they had brought alongside."
-- The same waves wash the moles of the new-built Californian towns, but yesterday planted by the recentest race of men, and lave the faded but still gorgeous skirts of Asiatic lands, older than Abraham; while all between float milky-ways of coral isles, and low-lying, endless, unknown Archipelagoes, and impenetrable Japans.
-- Then as the men went forward, he muttered on: "The things called omens!And yesterday I talked the same to Starbuck there, concerning my broken boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I see him, Spyers," said Chickweed, "pass my house yesterday morning," "Why didn't you up, and collar him!"
-- But yesterday morning you had made up your mind, in a great hurry, to stay here, and to accompany your mother, like a dutiful son, to the sea-side.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yes, she called yesterday with her father.
-- It will be in my power to assure him that her ladyship was quite well yesterday se'nnight.'
-- Mrs. Collins, did I tell you of Lady Met-calf's calling yesterday to thank me?
-- It was not often that she could turn her eyes on Mr. Darcy himself; but, whenever she did catch a glimpse, she saw an expression of general complaisance, and in all that he said she heard an accent so removed from hauteur or disdain of his companions, as convinced her that the improvement of manners which she had yesterday witnessed however temporary its existence might prove, had at least outlived one day.
-- The respect created by the conviction of his valuable qualities, though at first unwillingly admitted, had for some time ceased to be repugnant to her feeling; and it was now heightened into somewhat of a friendlier nature, by the testimony so highly in his favour, and bringing forward his disposition in so amiable a light, which yesterday had produced.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I must object to your dooming Colonel Brandon and his wife to the constant confinement of a sick chamber, merely because he chanced to complain yesterday (a very cold damp day) of a slight rheumatic feel in one of his shoulders."
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