| 释义 |
yada yada, int. and n. colloq. (chiefly U.S.).
Brit. |ˈjɑːdə ˈjɑːdə|, |ˈjadə ˈjadə|, U.S. |ˈjɑdə ˈjɑdə|
Forms: 19– yada yada, 19– yaddah yaddah, 19– yadda yadda, 19– yaddeyahdah, 19– yatta yatta; Also often reduplicated further.
[Imitative of the sound of human speech, probably influenced by (or perhaps an alteration of) yatter n. Compare also the following:
1947O. Hammerstein (title of song) Yatata yatata yatata. 1949Sat. Evening Post 27 Aug. 98/4 ‘Back-seat flying,’ Mike would grumble. ‘Always the yaddega-yaddega from the back seat’. 1950Time 30 Oct. 100/3 Though Right Cross's ring scenes are pretty well staged, it is a boxing picture with too much yatata and not enough sock. ]
A. int. Indicating (usually dismissively) that further details are predictable or evident from what has preceded: ‘and so on’, ‘blah blah blah’.
a1967L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 182 They're no good, the lot of them—‘Yaddeyahdah’—They're animals! 1981Washington Post (Nexis) 5 Jan. b1 I'm talking country codes, asbestos firewalls, yada yada yada. 1988J. McInerney Story of my Life i. 9, I get this weird rash so I finally go to the doctor who gives me this big lecture on AIDS—yada yada yada—then says the rash..won't kill me. 1997Village Voice (N.Y.) 8 Apr. 49/4 Moody is forcing a heap of very tired metaphors down your throat—as the nuclear family fissions, so does the nuclear reactor, yadda yadda yadda. 2005Arena May 109/1 Best actor of his generation, blah blah blah... Brilliant architect of the ‘method’ performance, yada, yada.
B. n. Trivial, meaningless, or uninteresting talk or writing; chatter. Cf. blah n.
1991Vanity Fair Feb. 144/2 This yatta-yatta is, of course, an evasion, and one that has..sparked endless speculation in Los Angeles about their relationship. 1998Report on Business Mag. Aug. 13/3 More pedestrian entries would be included, of course: the ‘yada yada yada’ of Asian flu, recent musings of Alan Greenspan, fluctuations in the Lombard rate. 2005Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) (Herald-Times ed.) 20 Mar. f5/5 The EULA, or ‘End-User License Agreement’, is the yadda yadda yadda that you agree to when you install software on your computer. It's usually pages and pages of stuff that no one reads. |