| 释义 |
▪ I. yep, int.
(7 yeap.)
A call to urge on a horse.
1690Dryden Don Sebastian i. i. (1692) 15 To your paces villain, amble, trot, and gallop!—Quick about there.—Yeap. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Yep! a word of command to horses.
▪ II. yep
repr. a dial. (esp. U.S.) or vulgar pronunc. of yes; cf. nope.
1891Harper's Mag. Nov. 970 He gently and peacefully murmured, ‘Yep’. 1897Kipling Capt. Cour. x. 222 ‘Like Lorry Tuck?’ Harvey put in. ‘Yep.’ 1905[see yah adv.]. 1907J. W. Schultz My Life as an Indian xxv. 284 ‘You must cut your hair.’ ‘Yep.’..‘An' quit gamblin.’ ‘Yep.’ 1926J. Galsworthy in Scribner's Mag. Dec. 581/1 Their ‘Yeahs!’ and their ‘Yeps!’ Americans no longer said ‘Yes’ it seemed! 1962E. Birney Sel. Poems (1966) iv. 99 Yep ain't nothin we kin do. 1967Listener 19 Jan. 96/3 ‘Would you like a cigarette?’ I got a typically aggressive ‘Yep’. 1977Time 16 May 39/2 Yep, I let the American people down. 1979R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) i. vi. 74 ‘Oh? You got a new car?’..‘Yep... Look out the window.’ |