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Voilà is a French word that English has borrowed and now uses freely. You say it at the moment something appears, is finished, or is revealed — the little verbal flourish that goes with pulling the cloth off the table. Three common uses: - Showing a result. You finish cooking, put the dish down: 'Add the cheese, wait five minutes, and — voilà!' - Presenting something to someone: you open the door of the new office and say 'Voilà.' - Meaning 'and that's it, problem solved', often with a touch of humour: 'You just press this button, and voilà, it works again.' The tone matters. It is playful and a bit theatrical. A teacher showing a magic trick says it; a doctor giving you bad news does not. English speakers use it partly BECAUSE it is French — it sounds a little stylish, a little tongue-in-cheek. it and you sound like you are performing. In French it literally means 'see there' (voi = see, là = there), and French uses it in far more situations, including quite plain ones. English took only the dramatic-reveal part. Saying it: vwah-LAH, stress on the second half. That first sound is 'vw', not 'v' alone — hard for many , and worth slowly.
(呈現成果時說)你看!瞧!好了!——帶點得意、帶點表演感的語氣;中文接近「登登~」「就這樣,完成!」
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。
voilàintj/vwæˈlɑː/
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Lo, there it is; ta-da; presto; behold!
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。