yet

CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #306 ★★★★★

adv. 还, 尚, 仍然, 已经, 然而 conj. 然而

发音

US /jɛt/
UK /jɛt/

词形变化

yets 复数 yets yets 三单 yetting 现在分词 yetted 过去式 yetted 过去分词 yoten 过去式 yoten 过去分词 yot 过去式 yotten 过去式 yotten 过去分词

别名

yit yete yett yitt ytt yeat

教材释义与例句

名词

(Yet)人名;(东南亚国家华语)一

副词

还;但是;已经

used to emphasize how much time will pass before something happens, or how long a situation will continue

连词

但是;然而

used to introduce a fact, situation, or quality that is surprising after what you have just said

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A metal pan or boiler; yetling.

    方言
v.
  1. 1.

    To pour.

    废旧

    […] & stablenes of perseueraunce; graunt me for all wor[l]dly consolacyons the swete, gracyous vnccyon of the holy goost, & for all carnall loue

    Some with a fals herte, and a payntyd face In his lordes seruyce to haue chefe rowme and place Into his lordes erys yetyth secretly Lyes venemous, […]

  2. 2.

    To melt; found; cast (e.g. metal, by pouring it into a mould when molten).

    方言 废旧

    […] whiche shall present him selfe openly stained or embrued with sondry colours, or poudered with the duste of stones that he cutteth, or perfumed with tedious sauours of the metalles by him yoten.

  3. 1.

    To get.

adv. A2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

    In negative or interrogative use, often with an expectation or potential of something happening in the future.

    I haven't finished yet.

    Have you finished yet?

    We do not yet know what happened.

    He has never yet been late for an appointment.

  2. 2.

    Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

    In negative imperative use, asking for an action to be delayed.

    Don't switch it on yet – wait until I've reconnected the pump.

  3. 3.

    Thus far; up to the present; up to some unspecified time.

    In affirmative use: still.

    古体 诗歌

    He is yet breathing. (He is still breathing.)

  4. 4.

    At some future time; eventually.

    The riddle will be solved yet.

  5. 5.

    Not as of the time referenced.

    I’ve yet to see him. — I have not yet seen him.

    I had yet to go to a convention. — I had not yet gone to a convention.

    They are yet to win a single match. — They have not yet won a single match.

    He seemed yet to be convinced. — He seemed not yet to have been convinced.

  6. 6.

    In addition.

    There are two hours yet to go until our destination.

  7. 7.

    Even.

    K-2 is yet higher than this.

    Oh no! Yet more problems!

conj. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    Nevertheless; however; but; despite that.

    I thought I knew you, yet how wrong was I!

    It’s incredible yet true.

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词源

Inherited from Middle English yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to flow, pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”). Cognate with Scots yat (“to pour, yet”), West Frisian jitte (“to scatter, shed, pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour, cast, mould”), German gießen (“to pour, cast, mould”), Swedish gjuta (“to pour, cast”). Doublet of yote.

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