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If you are cock-a-hoop, you are very pleased and — often because of something you have just done well, not only because luck landed on you. A team that has won, a child with full marks, a cook whose cake actually rose: they can all be cock-a-hoop.
If you are cock-a-hoop如果你cock-a-hoop, you are very pleased and excited代表你非常高興、興奮—— often because of something you have just done well通常是因為你剛做成了某件事, not only because luck landed on you而不只是運氣好而已 A team that has won, a child with full marks, a cook whose cake actually rose贏球的球隊、考滿分的小孩、蛋糕真的發起來的廚師: they can all be cock-a-hoop他們都可以是cock-a-hoop
It is cheerful, a little loud in feeling, and rather British; it also sounds a bit old-fashioned, so you will hear it more from older British speakers than from young Americans, who would more often say thrilled, over the moon, or on cloud nine.
It is cheerful, a little loud in feeling, and rather British這個字給人的感覺是開心、有點高調,而且偏英式; it also sounds a bit old-fashioned聽起來也有點老派, so you will hear it more from older British speakers than from young Americans所以你比較會從年紀較大的英國人口中聽到,而不是年輕的美國人, who would more often say thrilled, over the moon, or on cloud nine他們比較常說thrilled、over the moon,或on cloud nine
It is not a rude word, even though it starts with cock. The tidy idea is “delighted with a success”; in real talk it can also shade into “a bit too pleased with yourself”, depending on the speaker’s smile.
even though it starts with cock雖然這個字開頭是cock, It is not a rude word但它不是粗俗的字 The tidy idea is "delighted with a success"整齊的定義是「因成功而欣喜」; in real talk it can also shade into "a bit too pleased with yourself"但在實際使用中,也可能帶點「對自己有點太得意」的意味, depending on the speaker's smile要看說話者臉上的笑容而定
組成Nobody is sure where this comes from. It looks as if it has cock and hoop in it, but the origin is unknown, so those pieces do not give you a safe story.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
cock-a-hoopadj
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Exultant, very happy, triumphant.
- I have to say I felt pretty cock-a-hoop straight after my epidural but, some hours later, my head felt as though someone large and heavy had been sitting on it.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。