- 1昔日、往昔（幾乎只出現在 of yore 這個說法裡，很文言）
Yore means long ago, in the far past. In today's English it lives in almost one place only: the phrase 'of yore', which comes after a noun and means 'of the old days'. 'The knights of yore.' 'In days of yore, this valley was full of wolves.' 'Singers of yore.' Notice the shape — you don't say 'yore times' or 'it happened yore'. If you take it out of 'of yore', it stops sounding like English to most people. Long ago it was a normal adverb meaning 'long since', but that use died. The word is old, and it sounds it. That is exactly why people still reach for it: it puts a storybook or legend colour on the sentence, the sound of fairy tales, ballads, and history books written to feel grand. Because it is so marked, modern writers often use it lightly or with a wink — a food blog might joke about 'the shops of yore'. It is not wrong, but you can feel the quotation marks. For your own writing, 'in the past', 'long ago', or 'in the old days' will nearly always be the better choice; keep yore for reading, and for the rare moment when you want that old ring on purpose.
組成From Old English ġeāra 'long ago', which probably began as 'of years' — the plural of the old word for year. So underneath, yore is really years, worn down over a thousand years of speech.
同家族的字
- yearBoth go back to the same Old English root ġēar 'year'; yore was originally its plural form meaning 'of years (past)'.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
yorenoun/jɔː/
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A time long past.
- This word comes from the days of yore.
- It appeared strange to me that the “little dipper” should be still diving quietly in the river, as of yore; and it suggested that this bird might continue to dive here when Concord should be no more.
yoreadv/jɔː/
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obsoleteIn time long past; long ago.
- Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, / Yet I to them for iudgement iust do fly
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。