One way to hold whoopee: it begins as a noise, not as a meaning. Good news lands, and the sound jumps out of someone before they have chosen any words — hands up, voice loud, one syllable of pure delight. That noise is the whole of the word when it stands alone. When it is put inside 'make whoopee', the shout seems to stand in for the occasion that caused it: the kind of night that is loud enough to shout about. British and American speakers then take that loud night in two different directions.
whoopee 可以先想成一個聲音，而不是一個意思。好消息一來，人還沒想好要說什麼，那一聲就先跑出來了：手舉起來、聲音很大、就一個音節的高興。這個字單獨用的時候，全部就是這一聲。等它被裝進 make whoopee 這個片語，那一聲像是變成了「引起這一聲的場面」——一個吵到值得大叫的夜晚。接著英式和美式再把這個夜晚，各自帶往不同的方向。
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