yours /jɔːz $ jɔːrz/ ●●● S1 W3 pronoun [possessive form of ‘you’] → yaws1 OWNused when speaking or writing to one or more people to refer to something that belongs to them or is connected with them 你的(東西);你們的(東西)This is our room, and yours is just across the hall. 這是我們的房間,你們的在走廊那邊。
A lot of people have money problems, but yours are more serious than most people’s. 許多人有財務問題,不過你的問題比大多數人的要嚴重。
A cash prize of £10,000 or a new car – the choice is yours. 一萬英鎊的獎金或一輛新車——随你選擇。
something of yoursIs Maria a friend of yours? 瑪麗亞是你的朋友嗎?
That bag of yours weighs a ton. 你的這個包重得不得了。
I’ve read that book of yours. 我看過你的那本書了。
2 be yours for the taking/asking AVAILABLEif something desirable is yours for the taking or asking, you can easily obtain it 探囊可取,唾手可得If you want the job, it’s yours for the asking. 如果你想要這份工作,開口說一聲就是了。
3. Yours faithfully British EnglishBrETCM used to end a formal letter that begins ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear Madam’ 您忠誠的〔用於以Dear Sir或Dear Madam開頭的正式信函的末尾〕Yours faithfully• Such letters will close with Yours faithfully.• Thanks also to anyone else involved who may read this letter. Yours faithfully.• So what is new? Yours faithfully, Heinz Vuillermoz.
4. Yours truly/Yours (also Yours sincerely British EnglishBrE, Sincerely yours American EnglishAmE) used to end a letter that begins with the title and name of the person you are writing to, for example ‘Dear Mr. Graves’ 你真摯的〔用於以頭銜加姓氏稱呼收信人的信函末尾〕 5 yours truly informal used humorously to mean ‘I’ or ‘me’ 本人,我自己〔幽默用法〕They all went out, leaving yours truly to clear up the mess. 他們都出去了,留下本人收拾殘局。
yours truly• There are an awful lot of Luddites out there with computer dyslexia, including Yours Truly.• It is very important so I hope you will come. Yours truly, Hilda Passmore.• The man of your dreams has come. Yours truly is handsome, ear-nose-throat specialist, well settled in Connecticut.• A comparatively leisurely schedule of Yours Truly still entailed travelling to twenty-one cities in thirty-five weeks.• Of course it's Yours Truly that's got to dust the whole kit and caboodle!• All high tech and computers and whatnot. Yours truly won't be moving to the new premises. → up yours at up1(30)