Yahoo

释义

• n. 美国Yahoo公司（提供互联网的信息检索服务）

词源

yahoo (n.)

"a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." "A made name, prob. meant to suggest disgust" [Century Dictionary]. "Freq. in mod. use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout; a hooligan" [OED]. The internet search engine so called from 1994.

例句

• 1. Yahoo is the oldest and best-known Web directory service. 雅虎是最早且最知名的因特网目录服务网站。
• 2. Yahoo, we did it! 啊哈，我们成功了！
• 3. Nowdays , we have many Internet search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, WebCrawler. 现有的Internet搜索引擎如:Google, Yahoo, WebCrawler等, 可以帮助人们搜索Internet上各种信息.
• 4. Participating newspapers more than doubled their Web traffic from Yahoo. 参与报纸的Yahoo网站浏览量增加一倍多.
• 5. Yahoo! The Pain has Just Started? Yahoo! 痛苦才刚刚开始?