| 释义 |
yesternight, adv. and n. Chiefly dial. or arch.|jɛstəˈnaɪt|
Forms: 1 ᵹystran-, 3–7 yister-, 4 ȝistir-, ȝuster-, ȝerstene-, 4– 6 ȝester-, ȝister-, 5 ȝistyr-, yistre-, ȝustir-, 6 yeaster-, 5– yester-.
[OE.: f. ᵹystran (see yesterday) + niht night n.]
A. adv. On the night of yesterday, last night.
In early use not necessarily restricted to the night.
Beowulf 1334 Heo þa fæhðe wræc, þe þu ᵹystran niht Grendel cwealdest. a1300Cursor M. 15988 Ne sal he neuer vp-rise eft,..Ar sal þis cok vp-rise Was skald yisternight [other texts ȝister-, ȝuster-]. 13..Sir Beues (A.) 3088 Wel þe grete þat ilche kniȝt, Þat sopede wiþ þe ȝerstene niȝt. c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 221 (MS. Gg. 4. 27) Where ben hire armys & hire eyen clere Þat ȝistyr nyȝt þis tyme with me were? c1380Sir Ferumb. 148 Ȝester neite wan we had fiȝt ȝonder out on þ⊇ playne. a1450Paston Lett. (1897) I. 97 And now yistre nyght my Lord Welles come to Boston with iiijxx horses. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxviii. 1 My heid did ȝak ȝesternicht. 1546J. Heywood Prov. (1867) 32 Toward night yesternight..we came thyther. 1566Gascoigne Supposes ii. i, Yesternight in the evening I walked out, and founde Pasiphilo. 1612Savile in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 123 Sir Th. Bodley..died yesternight between 5 and 6 of the clock after noon. 1775Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 1 Aug., I forgot that the post went out yesternight, I therefore put this by the by-post. 1808Southey Let. to J. N. White 9 Jan., I have received two letters, both from persons whom I have never seen, one yesternight, and the other this evening. 1814Cary Dante, Inf. xx. 125 Yesternight The moon was round. 1828Scott F. M. Perth xviii, His beautiful daughter was a bride yesternight—this morning the Fair Maid of Perth is a widow before she has been a wife! 1888Fenn Dick o' the Fens xii, After our bad time with him yesternight, I mean to have some sleep.
B. n. The night last past.
1513Douglas æneis x. iii. 54 Mnestheus..Quham the renowne of this ȝistir nycht,..Full prowd maid in hys curage our the laif. 1591Savile Tacitus, Hist. i. xviii. 46 Excessiue affection it was towarde mee,..which bred..yeasternights trouble. a1631Donne Lett. (1651) 83 To know..whether you suffered anie thing, or no, by the ill accident of yester-night. 1700Penn in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. IX. 5 Thow wilt by this time have mine of yesternight. 1797Coleridge Christabel i. iv, She had dreams all yesternight Of her own betrothed knight. 1812― Let. to W. Wordsworth 7 Dec., They reminded me of my words the very yester-night. 1830Tennyson Ode to Memory 9 Flinging the gloom of yesternight On the white day. 1865Swinburne Chastelard ii. i, I have slept so well and sweet since yesternight. |