Question of the Day #734

While the decision-making process will ultimately be a subjective one, yours truly will be informing their judgement upon the players' Ballon d'Or-winning years as well as their overall achievements.

From the 5th paragraph of this article at Givemesport.com.

上記の文で、yours trulyの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "yours truly" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

私、自分、小生◆おどけた表現◆【語源】手紙の結句から

Answer

According to Collins Dictionary:

You can say yours truly as a way of referring to yourself.

Examples

• Yours truly was awoken by a shout: 'Ahoy there!'
• My boss claims credit for all these projects, but do you know who did all the work? Yours truly!
• Everybody is jumping on their bandwagon, but you can count out yours truly, because I'm loyal to my team.
• And who should know the truth of that better than yours truly ? Delman, David; DEATH OF A NYMPH
• Everyone else got up and left the table leaving yours truly to pay the bill.

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