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huzzah这个词起源,及用法
huzzah这个词起源,及用法
huzzah这个词起源,及用法
huzza [简明英汉词典]
int.表示大喜,赞许,欢呼等的声音
只是一种欢呼的口号，始于英格兰水手
Huzzah (originally huzza) is an old English expression of joy or approbation. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is "apparently a mere exclamation" without any particu...
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只是一种欢呼的口号，始于英格兰水手
Huzzah (originally huzza) is an old English expression of joy or approbation. According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is "apparently a mere exclamation" without any particular derivation. The OED notes, however, that in the 17th and 18th centuries it was identified as a sailor's cheer or salute, and thus was possibly related to words like heeze and hissa which are cognates of hoist.
The word hurrah is a more modern form, also related to similar words in European languages. The OED states: "In English the form hurrah is literary and dignified; hooray is usual in popular acclamation."
The term huzzah has been adopted, with no change in meaning, by modern gamers and those involved in the Renaissance Fair circuit both of which communities, admittedly, overlap. This was popularized by the comic strip Knights of the Dinner Table.
It is often associated with the cry of the British redcoats during the American Revolution.
Though it is often pronounced with a soft "a" sound at the end (huh-za), a piece entitled Essay on Man by Alexander Pope suggests that it may originally have been pronounced with an "ay" sound (as in weigh, neigh, or away):
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