| 单词 | so what? |
| 释义 | > as lemmasso what? c. so what?: a retort made to an assertion, implying that the problem expressed has no immediate interest or obvious solution. Also as attributive.phr. originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > indifference > [phrase] > expression of indifference what reck?a1513 a foutre for1600 God pays1605 san fairy ann1919 for all I care1934 so what?1934 (I, etc.) couldn't care less1946 see if I care1947 (I, etc.) could care less1966 1934 M. H. Weseen Dict. Amer. Slang 399 So what?—What of it? What does it matter?.. What does that have to do with the matter? Your remark has no bearing or significance. 1935 F. Baldwin Innocent Bystander v. 83 ‘He has a wife,’ said the girl gloomily. ‘So what?’ asked Angela carelessly. 1938 C. Landery (title) So what? a young man's odyssey. 1949 Hansard Commons 21 Nov. 104 That is unfortunate and disappointing but, to use an American expression, ‘So what?’ 1953 in Shorter Oxf. Eng. Dict. (1955) . Add. The tragedy of the ‘So what?’ generation. 1960 M. A. Sindall Matey xiii. 177 She suddenly yawned and flung the magazine on to the seat. ‘So what!’ she murmured. 1968 C. Watson Charity ends at Home x. 126 No, the fact is that Henny and I got along as well as most. Not around each other's necks all the time, but so what? 1970 T. Hilton Pre-Raphaelites viii. 201 Burne-Jones pushed art so far away from this world that our reactions to some of his paintings are of a merely so-what kind. < as lemmas |
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