| 释义 |
oops, int.|uːps, ʊps|
Also o-o-o-ps, ooops, oooops.
[A natural exclamation.]
An exclamation expressing apology, dismay, or surprise, used. esp. after making an obvious mistake.
1933‘R. James’ Worth Remembering xiii. 423 Slap fighting—smiting one's opponent with the open hand—a method even Babe would scurn. Oops! Oops! Oops! 1937L. B. Murphy Social Behavior & Child Personality i. i. 45 Julius picked up Gregory, carried him into the bathroom and dropped him on the floor, said ‘Oops!’ picked him up again, then let him walk. 1939L. M. Montgomery Anne of Ingleside xliii. 334 She caught her foot in a croquet hoop... Gilbert only said ‘O-o-o-ps!’ and steadied her. 1939D. Parker Here Lies 70 Oops, I'm sorry I joggled the bed. 1944‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Puppets i. 5 Iris..said: ‘Oops’ as she ran into headlong collision with a Marine sergeant. 1960V. Nabokov Invitation to Beheading xii. 119 She..knocked the pencil off, did not catch it in time, and said ‘oops!’ 1961J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) x. 108 ‘Ooops, there it goes again.’ The rain began falling again. 1972J. Burmeister Running Scared v. 80 If something went wrong you went Oops and called an expert. 1974Sunday Post (Glasgow) 5 May 32/3 The 'keeper gave the ball the wet soap treatment—Oops, butter fingers! 1975Daily Mirror 29 Apr. 16 Now, I'm all for new faces—oops, sorry, Hughie—appearing on talent shows on TV.
▸ colloq. An utterance of ‘oops’; an error or mishap.
1938J. H. P. Marks tr. L.-F. Céline Death on Installm. Plan in A. Alland Artistic Animal (1977) iv. 64 It [sc. the toilet] was already occupied by four vomiters in a state of collapse, wedged in tight... At every rising wave, oops... In the trough a dozen oopses, more copious, more compact. 1949Daily Reg. (Harrisburg, Illinois) 27 Dec. 3/4 One gal looked up at the ‘murals’, let out an ‘oops’, and went straight to see the secretary of the treasury. 1981E. Goffman Forms of Talk (1995) ii. 102 When in fact there is no danger to the self, we may respond to another's momentary loss of control with an Oops! also, providing him a warning that he is in trouble. 2002Libr. Jrnl. 15 Oct. 104/2 If you fall off a roof you can be revived and go back to the point in the game just before you made that big oops. |