already
adv.
By this or a specified time; before:
早已,已经到现在为止或到某一特点为止;先前:
The children were already asleep when we got home.
当我们到家时孩子们已经睡着了
So soon:
如此之快:
Are you quitting already?
你这么快就辞职了吗?
Non-Standard
【非标准用语】
Used as an intensive:
马上,这就用作加强语气词:
Be quiet already.Enough already.
安静些.够了.
用法:already
[表示现在或过去某时已发生的事实] 已经,早已,业经
He had already gone (when I arrived).
(当我到达时)他早已走了.
[问句或否定句表示惊愕、意外时]还(没有吗?),已经...(吗)?
Have you eaten your dinner already?
你已经吃饭了吗?
yet
adv.
At this time; for the present:
现在;目前:
isn't ready yet.
现在还没准备好
Up to a specified time; thus far:
迄今直至一特定时间;至今:
The end had not yet come.
到目前为止还没有结果
At a future time; eventually:
将来;终必:
may yet change his mind.
终究会改变他的想法
Besides; in addition:
另外;除此以外:
returned for yet another helping.
尚且还了一份礼
Still more; even
更,甚至:
a yet sadder tale.
一个更悲伤的故事
Nevertheless:
然而:
young yet wise.
年轻却很聪明
yet
conj.
And despite this; nevertheless:
仅管如此,虽然:
She said she would be late,yet she arrived on time.
她说她会迟到,但她却准时到达了
用法:yet
In formal style yet in the sense up to now requires that the accompanying verb be in the present perfect,rather than in the simple past:
在正式文体中,yet表达“迄今”这一意思时,须与现在完成时动词连用,而不是简单的过去时:
He hasn't started yet,not He didn't start yet.
他还未开始而不是.他未开始.
already用在疑问句中主要是根据肯定句的提问.