adv. 是, 是的
n. 是（表示肯定）
英 [jes]美 [jɛs]
权威例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句 - He was sitting there saying, "Yes, the figures make sense."
他坐在那儿说：“是的，这些数字可以理解。”
来自柯林斯例句 - Mr Wade answers both questions with a qualified yes.
韦德先生对两个问题给出了不完全肯定的回答。
来自柯林斯例句 - The Russian leader won a whopping 89.9 percent yes vote.
这位俄罗斯领导人赢得了89.9%的高票支持。
来自柯林斯例句 - Will she say yes when I ask her out?
我约她出去，她会答应吗？
来自柯林斯例句
中文词源
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.
英语词源
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
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.
