- yes (used in representations of upper-class speech)(上层阶级用语)同YES:
we can go right now, ok, yah.
我们马上就可以走, 好的, 是的。
- Brit. informal an upper-class person〈英, 非正式〉上流社会的人; 上层人士:
the cafe is full of yahs whose daddies own chateaux in France.
咖啡馆里坐满了上流社会人士, 他们的老爸在法国都有大别墅。
- expressing derision表示嘲笑唷:
yah, you missed!
唷!你没打中!
词源
natural exclamation: first recorded in English in the early 17th cent.