yesteryear

英 [ˈjestəjɪə(r)]

美 [ˈjestərjɪr]

n.  (尤指思想观念有别于当今的)旧时，往昔，过去

BNC.21363 / COCA.20095

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指思想观念有别于当今的）旧时，往昔，过去
  the past, especially a time when attitudes and ideas were different

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT （经常指价值观或生活方式有别于当今的）旧时，往昔，过去
  You useyesteryearto refer to the past, often a period in the past with a set of values or a way of life that no longer exists.
  1. The modern-day sex symbol has now taken the place of the old-fashioned hero of yesteryear.
     现代的性感偶像现在已取代了往昔过时的英雄形象。

英英释义

noun

• the time that has elapsed
  1. forget the past
  Synonym:pastpast times

双语例句

• See the automobiles of yesteryear at the Hayes Museum of industry.
  参观一下海斯工业博物馆里昔的汽车吧。
• Some are even comparing him to the immortals of yesteryear.
  有人甚至比喻他为去年的风云人物。
• Yet while the teens marked the return of Japan, it has also been a decade that emerging wonder-markets of yesteryear would rather forget.
  然而，虽然本世纪的第二个十年标志着日本的回归，它却是曾经被追捧的新兴市场宁愿忘却的10年。
• He says Asia today has parallels with the Europe of yesteryear, with its multiple regulations and myriad stages of development.
  他表示，就各种各样的监管规定和发展阶段而言，今天的亚洲与不久以前的欧洲很相似。
• To begin with, note that the new technologies, though derided by some of these skeptics for eroding the simple social bonds of yesteryear, are creating new social bonds.
  首先，值得注意的是，新技术尽管为某些科技怀疑论者所需要以弱化不久前简单的社会关系，其本身却在产生新的社会关系。
• The days of yesteryear there wasn't a lot of accountability and today there is.
  不久以前的日子没有太多的责任感而如今却存在。
• Last season's FA Youth Cup victors drew some flattering comparisons with the stars of yesteryear and are continuing to make progress through the ranks at Old Trafford.
  上赛季夺得年轻足总杯的球员们被拿来和上古先贤们对比，他们还在曼联学习。
• Modern banks are worse than the rail and oil conglomerates of yesteryear.
  现代银行比昔日铁路和石油联合企业更糟糕。
• Yet today, without a major media event in sight, we witness price swings that would put the wartime spikes of yesteryear to shame.
  然而，如今天下太平，我们看到的油价波动幅度却让昔日战争时期的上涨也相形见绌。
• I am so old that my school days are just a memory of yesteryear.
  我很老了，我的学校生活只是往日的一段记忆。