| 词汇 | hi |
| 词源 | hi! Possibly the most common greeting in the U.S. It is a vari- ant of hey! and became popular as a greeting about 1880. For five centuries before then, however, the British had used hi! as a cry to attract someone’s attention, as hey! is in America today. |
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