中英慣用短語:
  • n.  希望罷工早些結束, 這一願望日嚴重受挫.   suffered a severe set-back yesterday
  • v.  很抱歉, 晚我沒能參加你們的聚會.   I'm sorry I couldn't make your party last night
  • adj.  您晚在電視上妙語如珠.   You were scintillating on TV last night
  • v.  我們原以為他天能到.   We expected him to arrive yesterday
  • v.  我們衹是在天才與她偶然相遇.   We met her only yesterday, as it happens
  • n.  我們昨天下午到的.   We arrived yesterday afternoon
  • n.  我們昨天晚上在傢.   We were at home yesterday evening
  • adj.  我們隊天吃了個大敗仗.   Our team got a terrible walloping yesterday
  • adv.  我對此事記憶猶新, 恍如日一般.   I can remember it as if it were yesterday
  • indef det  我夜大部分時間都醒著.   I lay awake much of the night
  • v.  我昨天買了些藍顔料.   I bought some blue dye yesterday
  • v.  我天在舊書店找到一本很寶貴的書.   I made a great find in that second-hand bookshop yesterday
  •   我天遇見了珍妮特, 一下子就愛上她了.   I met Janet yesterday, and I'm rather smitten with her
  • adv.  我天騎自行車摔倒了--所以青一塊、 紫一塊的.   I fell off my bike yesterday hence the bruises
  • v.  我昨晚聽到了爆炸聲.   I heard an explosion last night
  •   我晚開車軋著了一隻貓.   I ran over a cat last night