核心畫面
You can picture 'yes' as the single word you give back when you accept what is in front of you — a statement, an offer, a request — and step toward it instead of holding it off.
可以把 yes 想成你對眼前的東西點頭收下的那一個字:別人說了一句話、給你一個提議、提出一個請求,你用 yes 把它…更多收起
可以把 yes 想成你對眼前的東西點頭收下的那一個字:別人說了一句話、給你一個提議、提出一個請求,你用 yes 把它接過來、往它靠過去,而不是擋在門外。所有其他用法都是這個「接受、靠過去」的動作,被放進不同的場合裡。原始詞典資料14 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
yesparticle/jɛs/
- 1
Used to show agreement or acceptance.
- Yes, you are correct.
- Yes, you may go play outside now.
- 2
Used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.
- It was not my fault we lost the race. Oh, yes, it was!
- 3
Answer to a question presuming one answer when all answers are correct.
- Do you like cake, or pie? Yes.
yesintj/jɛs/
- 1
An exclamation of pleasure or approval, usually transcribed with an exclamation point.
- Our second goal of the match! Yes!
- 2
Response that confirms that the user is paying attention.
- 3
Used to ask for more information with a request.
- I need some help. Yes?
yesnoun/jɛs/
- 1
An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
- Was that a yes?
- Yet a woman’s “yes” would have bound him to that other life forever, and made the thought of this savage existence repulsive.
- 2
A vote of support or in favor of something.
- The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".
yesverb/jɛs/
- 1
To agree with, affirm, approve.
- Did he yes the veto?
- "That's really what you wanted?" I yessed both; ...
- 2
To say “yes”.
- The next day another writer asked us: “Didja hear about So-and-So? Got two hundred and fifty bucks for an idea!” We “yessed” and went our way.
- “Heaven knows why a woman ‘Noes’!” / Clarrie nodded glumly. “And why she ‘Yesses’ in the end.”
- 3
slangTo attempt to flatter someone by habitually agreeing
yesdet/jɛs/
- 1
Countering a statement using the determiner no:
- Have you heard this before? "Nintendo 64 has no games!" Well, I did a little researching, and here's what I found: […]
- [Message header:] No water... YES WATER! / We have water again!
- 2
Countering a statement using the determiner no:
- When our family left graduate school, it was in a cocoon of our own feelings, with college life behind us and the boys excitedly talking about what was “behead of us,” and our car avoiding no parking signs but aiming for “yes parking.”
- I lived in a no-pets apartment in a house. And my boyfriend and I broke up (that's another installment, too!), and I grabbed the dog, who was always mine, anyway. And my landlord agreed that it was a yes-pets apartment shortly afterward.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。