| 词汇 | uh oh |
| 词源 | uh, oh; uh-huh; uh, uh; huh. Humorist H. Allen Smith thought uh, oh was the most terrifying phrase in English, “as when a doctor looks at your X-rays and says ‘uh, oh.‘ ” It is not to be confused with uh-huh and um, “yes”; uh-uh, “no”; or huh?, “what?” All of these expressions or grunts have been traced back to at least the 1830s. Stuart Berg Flexner in I Hear America Talking has described uh-uh, huh?, and um as “among the most common ‘words’ heard in America . . . truly native earmarks of an American,” and points out that perceptive En- glish author Captain Frederick Marryat properly identified them as Americanisms over a century ago. Flexner doesn’t mention it but y’know is replacing uh as a surrogate crutch to- day, y’know; I mean, uh, y’know is a form of “inarticulatese,” that is, uh, y’know . . . |
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