chop-chop

短语
FREQ #23178

adv. 快点, 赶快 interj. 快点, 赶快

发音

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AU

别名

chop chop

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal.

    澳大利亚 非正式 不可数

    2002 November 11, Major ‘chop chop’ seizure in Northern Queensland, Australian Taxation Office, media release.

adv.
  1. 1.

    Quickly.

interj.
  1. 1.

    Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

    快点

    (Singapore) chop-chop kalipok

词汇关系

副词

同义词 5

quickly rapidly apace in short order speedily

词源

From Chinese Pidgin English, from Cantonese 速速 (cuk1 cuk1, “quick”). Recorded in English since the 1830s (see citations for adverb). Recorded as a Chinese term in 1795.

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