| 释义 |
yeah, adv. colloq. (orig. U.S.).|jɛə|
Repr. a casual pronunc. of yes adv. Cf. oh yeah.
1905Dialect Notes III. 67 Yeah, yep,..variants of yes. 1925F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby iv. 87 ‘That's a very interesting idea.’ ‘Yeah.’ He flipped his sleeves up under his coat. 1936M. Kennedy Together & Apart iv. 293 ‘You were in Sweden with him last year, weren't you?’ ‘Yeah.’ 1940Music Makers May 37/3 Yeah, man, exclamation of assent. 1949E. Birney Turvey 153 ‘Yeah, yeah, Hayes was pretty hot but the ref―’. 1950‘D. Divine’ King of Fassarai xx. 166 ‘I take it the natives are friendly?’.. ‘Yeah... We had us a party last night.’ 1961J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xix. 194 ‘Will that be all, sir?’ asked the chaplain. ‘Yeah,’ said Colonel Cathcart. ‘Unless you've got something else to suggest.’ 1977B. Langley Death Stalk ix. 104 ‘The shooting. That was Tony.’ ‘Tony?’ ‘Yeah, he done that.’
▸ yeah, right: (used ironically to express contempt or incredulity with respect to a preceding statement) ‘not likely’, ‘if you say so’.
1971D. A. Schollander & D. Savage Deep Water xix. 118 Jim..asked me to swim the anchor leg of the relay{ddd} I thought he was joking. ‘Yeah, right,’ I said. 1982N.Y. Times 10 July 28/3 I'd yell at the kids to leave... They'd ignore me, say, ‘Yeah, right. Call the cops. Drop dead’. 2005Bliss July 18/3 If she ever runs out of ker-ching (yeah right!) she can always tap him up for a few quid! |
