单词 | hi there! |
释义 | > as lemmashi (or hello) there! b. As a brusque mode of address (often in commands) to a person or persons in the place or direction indicated; = you (that are) there. Now also appended casually to exclamations of greeting, etc., as hi (or hello) there!, with varying purpose: frequently to attract attention or to express cordiality. ΚΠ 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet C b Hollow there, giue me the beard I wore yesterday. a1596 Sir Thomas More (1911) i. ii. 97 Silence there, hoe! 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxi. 23 Louder the musicke there . View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover iii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. C2/1 Put to the doores a while there. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe ii. 24 Your fury hardens me:..A Guard there; seize her. 1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge x. 290 ‘Halloa there! Hugh!’ roared John. 1859 Habits Good Society v. 200 He will..use some such phrase as: ‘May I trouble you for that ball, sir?’ not ‘Ball, you there’, as one sometimes hears it. 1885 ‘P. Perkins’ Familiar Lett. (1886) 33 We would have had to walk, I believe, if a man hadn't come along and let out the most satisfactory ‘Hi, there!’ you've ever heard, and stopped a car. a1912 Mod. Hurry up there! Do you hear there? Pass along there, please! 1924 Dial. Notes 5 270 Hi there, (call or warning). 1945 T. Williams Battle of Angels ii. i. 33 A girl: Hello! Val: (amiably) Hello there. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top xv. 188 ‘Hello there,’ I said, ‘What's new?’ < as lemmas |
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