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

• If too much volcanic heat is discharged, the crater's ice pack will melt away entirely and the caves will vanish along with the snows of yesteryear.
  如果太多的火山热量被释放，火山口的浮冰群将会完全消失并且洞和几年前的雪一起消失。
• The elevated cities and the "Star Trek" voyages of yesteryear may now seem corny, but at least they show humanity has a future, he says.
  他说，一座座被升起的城市还有“星际旅行”中“时光倒流”旅行也许现在似乎庸俗，可至少它们表明人类拥有一个未来。
• Indeed, we carry a lot of luggage from our yesteryear in the human brain.
  确实是这样，我们把从过去带来的大量的行李堆放在大脑中。
• 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。
• This stimulus, along with new initiatives by other countries, must help catapult the world economy into the 21st century, not perpetuate the dying industries and bad habits of yesteryear.
  这种刺激，连同其它国家的新举措，必须帮助将全球经济快速送入21世纪，而不是让行将消亡的产业和以往的坏习惯延续下去。
• Regrets are yesteryear, hope bides its time to manifest within the glorious vision of tomorrow.
  遗憾是过去的事了，希望停留在现在来显现明天辉煌的前景。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Like the supercomputers of yesteryear, the first of tomorrow's QCs will probably consist of some exotic hardware at the core which stores and manipulates the quantum state machine.
  和过去的超级计算机一样，未来的第一台QC的核心很可能由一些存储和控制量子态机器的奇特硬件组成。