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Whoa is a word people say out loud to show sudden surprise or ('Whoa, look at that!'). It's also an old command used to tell a horse to slow down or stop, and people sometimes use it the same way to tell a person to slow down or calm down.
哇（表達驚訝）；喔／慢著（叫人或動物停下、放慢）
原始詞典資料4 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。
whoaintj/wəʊ/
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Stop (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof); calm down; slow down.
- Whoa, Nelly!
- The Negroes, having waited for the white people to go upstairs, began to come in. “Whoa now, just a minute,” said a club member, holding up his walking stick. “Just don’t start up them there stairs yet awhile.”
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An expression of surprise.
- Whoa, are you serious?
- Whoa. Wait a minute, Doc. Are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me?
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Used as a meaningless filler in song lyrics.
- I am the type who is liable to snipe you With two seconds left to go, whoa.
- And oh whoa girl, it's a shame. Oh whoa girl, it's a doggone shame.
whoaverb/wəʊ/
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To attempt to slow (an animal) by crying "whoa".
- He was whoaing the horses loudly, and they did seem to be going faster than usual—in fact, they were galloping.
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。