yes: [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. => yea
yes (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.
雙語例句
1. Ah yes, but think of all the family life they're missing.
是這樣，不過別忘了他們錯過了多少天倫之樂。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He was sitting there saying, "Yes, the figures make sense."
他坐在那兒說：“是的，這些數字可以理解。”
來自柯林斯例句
3. Mr Wade answers both questions with a qualified yes.
韋德先生對兩個問題給出了不完全肯定的回答。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The Russian leader won a whopping 89.9 percent yes vote.