Yahoo

英 ['jɑːhuː; jə'huː] 美['jɑhu]
  • n. 美国Yahoo公司(提供互联网的信息检索服务)

常用词汇

助记提示


yahoo:来自Gulliver’sTravel里的像人类的粗鲁低下的动物耶胡。——粗鲁的人。

中文词源


yahoo 粗鲁人

来自小说《格列佛游记》中的人物Yahoo,一个非常粗鲁和令人讨厌的家伙,该名字可能是小说作者Jonathan Swift根据拟声词创造出来的。后雅虎网站创始人杨致远和David Filo以此命名,因这个名字带有一种破坏性和激进性的味道,同时,其读起来也朗朗上口之故。

英文词源


yahoo (n.)
"a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." "A made name, prob. meant to suggest disgust" [Century Dictionary]. "Freq. in mod. use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout; a hooligan" [OED]. The internet search engine so called from 1994.

双语例句


1. Yahoo is the oldest and best-known Web directory service.
雅虎是最早且最知名的因特网目录服务网站。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Yahoo, we did it!
啊哈,我们成功了!

来自《权威词典》

3. Nowdays , we have many Internet search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, WebCrawler.
现有的Internet搜索引擎如:Google, Yahoo, WebCrawler等, 可以帮助人们搜索Internet上各种信息.

来自互联网

4. Participating newspapers more than doubled their Web traffic from Yahoo.
参与报纸的Yahoo网站浏览量增加一倍多.

来自互联网

5. Yahoo! The Pain has Just Started?
Yahoo! 痛苦才刚刚开始?

来自互联网