| 单词 | add oil! |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadd oil! Originally and chiefly Hong Kong English. add oil!: expressing encouragement, incitement, or support: go on! go for it! [After Chinese (Cantonese) gā yáu, with reference to petrol being injected into an engine ( < gā to add + yáu petrol, variant (with tonal modification) of yàuh oil of any kind), and the corresponding Mandarin jiāyóu.] In quots. 1964 and 1980, a contextually supplied translation of the Chinese phrase (in the latter example, also serving as the article's title). ΚΠ 1964 Li Shu-Fan Hong Kong Surgeon iii. xi. 187 At frequent intervals he would say jokingly to his assistant next to him, ‘Ka Yow!’ ‘Ka Yow!’ meaning ‘Add oil! Add oil!’ 1980 Straits Times (Singapore) 25 July 36/1 ‘Add oil’... The children cheered themselves hoarse, shouting ‘Jia Yu’ (Mandarin for ‘Add Oil’) to their team members.] 2005 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 1 Nov. 2 Some children..started chanting: ‘Macau team, add oil!’ 2016 China Daily (Hong Kong ed.) (Nexis) 7 June If we really are serious about being Asia's World City, we still have a lot of work to do. So add oil, everyone! < as lemmas |
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