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O Latin Attested 412.Oh 英 əʊ]美 释义 Int

正面 412.oh
英 [əʊ]美 [o]

背面
释义:
int. 哦;哎呀(表示惊讶或恐惧等)
例句:
1. He goes to me: "Oh, what do you want?"他问我:“哦,你想要什么?”

1、sens- + -e.

oh1530s, 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."

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