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English Yea Originally Negative Questions 259.Yes 英 Jes]美

正面 259.yes
英 [jes]美 [jɛs]

背面
释义:
adv. 是, 是的n. 是(表示肯定)
例句:
1. Ah yes, but think of all the family life they're missing.是这样,不过别忘了他们错过了多少天伦之乐。

job 【找吧】 工作
yes 是来自古英语gese,就是这样,ge-,是,词源同yea,se-,如此,词源同so.
yesyes: [OE] Yes is descended from Old English gese. It is thought that this was a compound formed from gēa ‘yes’ (ancestor of archaic English yea and related to German and Dutch ja ‘yes’) and sīe, the third-person present singular subjunctive of be, and that it therefore originally meant literally ‘yes, may it be so’. It was at first used as a response to negative questions, while yea was used for positive questions, but around the end of the 16th century this distinction began to disappear, and yea has since died out.=> yeayes (adv.)Old English gise, gese "so be it!," probably from gea, ge "so" (see yea) + si "be it!," third person imperative of beon "to be" (see be). Originally stronger than simple yea. Used in Shakespeare mainly as an answer to negative questions. As a noun from 1712. Yes-man is first recorded 1912, American English."

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