英语词汇oy vay的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	oy vay
词源	Oy vay! A common Yiddish expression. Albert Einstein is said to have cried “Oy vay!” when told that the first atomic bomb, which he did not know was being built, had obliterated Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Literally, the words mean “oh, pain,” vay deriving from German Weh, meaning “woe.” Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish (1968) goes on to list fully 29 uses of the workhorse exclamation. See oy!
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