A-okay

短语

发音

UK /ˌeɪ.əʊˈkeɪ/
US /ˌeɪ.oʊˈkeɪ/

词形变化

more A-okay 比较级 most A-okay 最高级

别名

A-OK a-okay AOK

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    In perfect order; thoroughly acceptable.

    非正式

    1952, advertisement by Midvac Steels. "The Golden Age of Advertising - the 50s", p. 57, Ed. Jim Heimann, Taschen 2005. A-OK for tomorrow's missile demands.

    1970, Mike Brewer and Tom Shipley, Tarkio, "Oh Mommy" It says right there in the constitution, It's really A-okay to have a revolution, When the leaders that you choose Really don't fit their shoes.

词汇关系

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go

词源

First attested in 1952 in the US, popularized in the 1960s by John A. Powers as NASA's public affairs officer for Project Mercury: the "voice of Mercury Control". Intensive form of okay, presumably "all [systems] okay".

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