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单词 yesteryear
释义
yesteryearyes‧ter‧year /ˈjestəjɪə, -jɜː $ ˈjestərjɪr/ noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINyesteryear
Origin:
1800-1900 yesterday + year
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Forget the promotional toasters and blenders of yesteryear.
  • Joiners of yesteryear had their names stamped on their wooden planes and saw handles.
  • Operating rooms come equipped with lasers and computers, not just the scalpels and saws of yesteryear.
  • Snow from the mountains were used to make the sherbets of yesteryear, but nowadays we have freezers.
  • The records of yesteryear and some older memories suggest Colin Booth was also a quite exceptional golfer.
  • Today the parliaments of the Arab states seem to take themselves for the caliphal palaces of yesteryear.
  • We are often told that the politicians of yesteryear were greater figures than the politicians of today.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • The magnificent big boats of yesteryear have virtually vanished.
of yesteryear literary existing in the past:  the steam trains of yesteryear
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