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)
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