| 释义 |
rah, int. and n. U.S.|rɑː|
Also ra.
Aphetic for hurrah.
1870D. J. Kirwan Palace & Hovel xxiv. 372 The 'Rah, 'Rah, 'Rah, of Harvard pierces the air... Oxford has just got into her careless, easy swing. 1887Harper's Mag. Feb. 395/1 The junior class filed into the green enclosure amidst the 'rahs of their friends. 1889‘Mark Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxxiii. 421 'Rah for protection—to Sheol with free-trade! 1894R. H. Davis Eng. Cousins 120 An American misses the rah-rahs and the skyrocket cries. 1905N.Y. Even. Post 29 June, Harvard almost immediately increased her stroke, and the way their cut-water slid along called forth the nine long 'rahs again and again. 1917R. Frost Let. 3 Dec. (1972) 20 Rah rah rah for some other college than Wellesley. 1924H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. Mann's Buddenbrooks II. vii. iv. 24 A voice..shouts suddenly: ‘Heine Seehas is 'lected—'rah for Heine Seehas!’ 1942Ade Let. 1 Feb. (1973) 227 We didnt play basket-ball or foot ball [at school in the ‘seventies and eighties’] and we never learned to stand up on our hind legs and let out a rah-rah. 1972‘E. Lathen’ Murder without Icing (1973) iv. 41 ‘Way to go, Billy!’ ‘Rah! Rah! Billy Siragusa!’ 1977Lancashire Life Mar. 56/1 Ra-ra-ra! Give a cheer from the sidelines for Accrington, the town that is instilling new life into American baseball. |