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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You know, father, you would have done much better not to come at all!She is ready to eat you up!You have not shown yourself since the day before yesterday and she is ex-pecting the money.
-- The wretch-ed Platon, who had almost died since yesterday of the reproaches showered upon him, wept on my shoulder.
-- Only yesterday she boasted of her freedom to Nicolai Ardalionovitch a bad sign,' added Lebedeff, smiling.
-- 'I meant to take to my bed yesterday and stay there till I died, but as my legs can still carry me, I put it off for two days, so as to come here with them to-day but I am very tired.'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For Jove went yesterday to Oceanus, to a feast among the Ethiopians, and the other gods went with him.
-- 'All who have not since perished must remember as though it were yesterday or the day before, how the ships of the Achaeans were detained in Aulis when we were on our way hither to make war on Priam and the Trojans.
-- I greatly fear that the Achaeans will pay us their debt of yesterday in full, for there is one abiding at their ships who is never weary of battle, and who will not hold aloof much longer.'
-- Thus, then, do I charge you: take some noble young Achaeans with you, and bring from my tents the gifts that I promised yesterday to Achilles, and bring the women also; furthermore let Talthybius find me a boar from those that are with the host, and make it ready for sacrifice to Jove and to the sun.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Yesterday he bled and wept,' said the Satyr.
-- 'Yesterday he asked me of things to eat,' said the Ape-man.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One of our babies fell out of the nest yesterday and Nag ate him.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'That Le Renard has power with his people, I well know,' said Montcalm; 'for yesterday he hunted for their scalps, and to-day they hear him at the council-fire.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The latitude which I obtained yesterday placed New Zealand to the west of Lincoln Island, and the coast of Chile to the east.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not without great reluctance and misgiving that Mr Swiveller, next morning, his head racked by the fumes of the renowned Schiedam, repaired to the lodging of his friend Trent (which was in the roof of an old house in an old ghostly inn), and recounted by very slow degrees what had yesterday taken place between him and Quilp.
-- 'It seems to me but yesterday that you went out to Demerara in the Mary Anne,' said Quilp; 'but yesterday, I declare.
-- In the darkened room, the din of yesterday was going on again: a little sobered and softened down, perhaps, but only a very little, if at all.
-- 'Sally found you a second-hand stool, Sir, yesterday evening, in Whitechapel.
-- 'Do you know,' returned Miss Brass, 'that the lodger isn't up yet that nothing has been seen or heard of him since he went to bed yesterday afternoon?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff opened the perfumed letter and began to read: "In fulfillment of the duty I assumed of being your memory," the letter ran, "I call to your mind that you have been summoned to serve as juror to-day, the 28th of April, and that, therefore, you cannot accompany us and Kolosoff to the art exhibition, as you promised yesterday in your customary forgetfulness; 脙聽 moins que vous ne soyez dispos脙漏 脙聽 payer 脙聽 la cour d'assises les 300 rubles d'amende que vous vous refusez pour votre cheval, for your failure to appear in time.
-- "You had scarcely left Prince Korchagin's house yesterday when I called for you," said the driver, half-turning his stout, sun-burned neck in the white collar of his shirt, "and the footman said that you had just gone."
-- His marriage to Missy, which but yesterday seemed to be so near, to-day appeared to him absolutely impossible.
-- Yesterday he understood his position to be such that there could be no doubt that she would be happy to marry him; to-day he felt himself unworthy not only of marrying her, but of being her friend.
-- the three judges in high collars on the elevation, the silence, the seating of the jury on high-backed chairs, the gendarmes, the priest--he felt that, though it was necessary to do it, he would not have been able even yesterday to break this solemnity.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yesterday it was so high, yesterday night it fell, then this morning it rose again, and so gently upward to here.
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