(1) ①yet可用于肯定句中,意为“还,仍,将来还可能”,相当于still,常带感情色彩(但不能完全换用)。
- She is talking yet .
她还在谈。(含有不耐烦的意思) - You will succeed yet .
你还是会成功的。(虽然现在失败了) - It was too early yet to tell anything.
现在说什么都还太早。 - There are ten days yet to go before we begin our lessons.
离我们开课仍然还有10天。 - Take your overcoat with you. It will be colder yet before spring comes.
带上你的外套吧,春天到来之前还会更冷的。
②yet与another连用,意为“还有(一个或一些),再”。
- I have yet/still another question to ask.
我还有一个问题要问。 - He's made yet another mistake/yet more mistakes.
他又犯了一个错误/一些错误。 - Sing it yet once more .
再唱一遍吧。
③yet有时表示“仍然,还在,还得”。
- I have yet to acquaint myself with the facts.
我还得熟悉这些事实。
④yet可与比较级连用,表示“更加,再……一些”,可与still换用。
- I have yet/still more exciting news for you.
我有更让人振奋的消息给你。 - Play it yet more softly .
演奏得更轻柔一些。 - We'll have to work harder yet .
我们的工作必须再加把力。
(2) ①still意为“仍然,还是”,可用于肯定句、否定句和疑问句。
- Although I have explained it to him once more, he still doesn't seem to understand.
尽管我又给他解释了一遍,他好像还是没明白。 - While the meeting was still going on, a crowd of people broke in.
会议还在进行的时候,一群人闯了进来。 - I didn't expect to find you still here.
我没料到能发现你还在这儿。 - Doesn't he still live here?
他仍然住在这儿吗?
②still可用于加强形容词、副词比较级,意为“更加,越发”,可置于比较级前,也可置于其后。
- He is already in his fifties and he works so hard, still more ought we.
他已50多岁了,但工作还如此努力,我们更应这样了。 - This book is good but that one is still better/better still.
这本书很好,但那本书更好。 - He came late, but you came still later .
他来晚了,但你来得更晚。 - More important still I did not want to bother him.
更重要的是我不想打扰他。
③still可作“尽管如此,但……(仍然)”解。
- He is naughty; (but) still you cannot help liking him.
他很淘气,但你仍然禁不住喜欢他。 - This is not what I want, but still I'll make it do.
这不是我想要的,但尽管如此,我将就着用吧。 - Still I don't want to go.
尽管如此,我仍然不想去。
④有时与another连用,表示“还另外有一个”,可与yet换用。
- There is still another reason for not doing that.
不做那件事还有另外一个原因。