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(东西);你们的(东西) This is our room, and yours is just across the hall. 这是我们的房间,你们的在走廊那边。
A lot of people have money problems, but yours are more serious than most people’s. 许多人有财务问题,不过你的问题比大多数人的要严重。
A cash prize of £10,000 or a new car – the choice is yours. 一万英镑的奖金或一辆新车——随你选择。
something of yours Is Maria a friend of yours? 玛丽亚是你的朋友吗?
That bag of yours weighs a ton. 你的这个包重得不得了。
I’ve read that book of yours. 我看过你的那本书了。
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. 如果你想要这份工作,开口说一声就是了。
3. Yours faithfully British EnglishBrETCM used to end a formal letter that begins ‘Dear Sir’ or ‘Dear Madam’ 您忠诚的〔用于以Dear Sir或Dear Madam开头的正式信函的末尾〕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’ 你真挚的〔用于以头衔加姓氏称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. 他们都出去了,留下本人收拾残局。
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)