oh
英 [əʊ]
美 [o]
英文詞源
- oh
- 1530s, interjection expressing various emotions, a common Indo-European word (Old French ô;, oh; Latin o, oh; Greek o; Old Church Slavonic and Lithuanian o; Gothic, Dutch, German o; Old Irish a; Sanskrit a), but not found in Old English, which translated Latin oh with la or eala.
The present tendency is to restrict oh to places where it has a certain independence, & prefer o where it is proclitic or leans forward upon what follows .... [Fowler]
Often extended for emphasis, as in Oh, baby, stock saying from c. 1918; oh, boy (1910); oh, yeah (1924). Reduplicated form oh-oh as an expression of alarm or dismay is attested from 1944. Oh-so "so very" (often sarcastic or ironic) is from 1922. Oh yeah? "really? Is that so?" attested from 1930.
雙語例句
- 1. He goes to me: "Oh, what do you want?"
- 他問我：“哦，你想要什麽？”
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The policeman smiled at her. "Pretty dog."— "Oh well, thank you."
- 警察衝她笑了笑，“這狗真漂亮。”——“哦，謝謝。”
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I've been here, oh, since the end of June.
- 我是，呃，6月底來到這裏的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. "Oh, Gairdner," he said, as if that meant something to him.
- “哦，蓋爾德納，”他說道，好像他聽說過這個名字。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. "How much is he paying you?" — "Oh, five thousand." —"Not bad."
- “他給你多少錢？”——“哦，5,000。”——“挺不錯嘛。”
來自柯林斯例句