- 1再見（西班牙文借詞，英語口語中隨性、輕快；也用來表示「就這樣沒了、掰掰囉」）
Adios is Spanish for goodbye, used freely in English — especially American English, where Spanish is heard every day. In English it is casual and a bit jaunty. You toss it out as you leave, often with a wave.
It also has a second life that Spanish does not really have. English speakers use adios to mean 'and that's gone for good' — a cheerful farewell to something you are glad to be rid of, or something that has just been destroyed. 'One more mistake like that and adios, job.' 'The wind took the umbrella — adios.' There is a shrug in it, sometimes a bit of triumph.
Spelling and sound: in English it is usually written without the accent, adios, and said 'ah-dee-OHS'. In Spanish itself it is adiós with the accent on that last syllable, which is where English gets the stress from.
Rarely it appears as a noun — 'a quick adios' — but that is unusual.
Though actually — like adieu, it began as 'to God', a short form of a longer blessing said to . The two words are twins from different languages, arriving in English by different roads. But they landed in different places: adieu turned literary and solemn, adios turned breezy. Same idea, opposite moods, which is a good reminder that a word's history does not decide how it feels today.
組成Borrowed from Spanish adiós, from 'a Dios' — 'to God', shortened from a longer parting blessing. A doublet of adieu, which came into English from French with the same origin.
同家族的字
- adieuthe French twin — same 'to God' origin, borrowed by a different route
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
adiosintj/ˌæ.diˈɒs/
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goodbye
adiosnoun/ˌæ.diˈɒs/
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A goodbye.
- In fifteen minutes I had finished eating, swilled a cup of industrial strength scorch, got Solly’s keys and all the dope on how to handle his big new DeSoto, received a sack of ribs from Cleo to eat along the way and paid my adioses to Trumbo and Len Fugate who saw Helen and me to the door.
- Bill McCauley also said his adioses as he’s departing this summer to rejuvenate the DCS for Doctrine at TRADOC.
adiosverb/ˌæ.diˈɒs/
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To leave; to literally or figuratively say “adios” to.
- About an hour later I adiosed the office.
- “Oh, yes, I’m so happy that my latest codelincuente has adiosed me,” I scoff.
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To get rid of.
- By the time they got there, somebody’d adiosed the corpse.
- She also adiosed the eye contact.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。