【Chat Room】
- Teaching Topic：Other Than the Company Yahoo - 非雅虎公司的yahoo ←Click it!!
- 本文："Yahoo!" they all cheered.
- Nowadays when we hear the name "Yahoo", we can think about the website or the American company that runs it, but "yahoo" was acturally an interjection that express "joy"-"Yahoo!" 高聲歡呼
- An interjection is word that express kind of emotion, like words like "Ouch" or "Wow" are interjections. 感嘆詞
- similar to "yahoo": "yippee". "hurray"
- 為何雅虎公司選"yahoo"當作公司名？
Yahoo Incooperate got it's name from another reference, the founder select the name because they like the word other definition meaning: unsophisticated, and this definition comes from the novel "Gulliver's travels", in that story, there's a group creature call the "Yahoos", and now "Yahoo" when it is a noun, refer to more unsophisticated people.
是因為創辦人喜歡yahoo在詞典中的另一個定義：不文明的人，來自於一本小說Gulliver's travels(格列弗遊記)，書中描述了一種叫作"yahoo"的怪物，後因此書的暢銷，"yahoo"自此有了新的定義，即表示"不文明的人"。
【Language Tips】
- call upon v-phr.
pattern: call upon/call on someone to do something 要求/請求/號召某人作某事
ex:
1. Greg called upon his whole family to help him move.
2. We are calling upon all students to donate money to help the earthquake survivors. - turn up one's nose [idiom] 把鼻子抬得高高的，意即瞧不起，不屑
pattern: turn up one's nose at someone
ex:
1. Victor turned up his nose at several job offers and ended up missing out on many good opportunities. (對好幾個公司提出的條件都不屑一顧)
2. Ray always turns up his nose at fruits and vegetables. He would rather eat junk food. - pig out phr. 大吃大喝，狼吞虎嚥
(pig, pigged, pigged)
pattern: pig out on something
ex: We pigged out on the turkey and pumpkin pie during Thanksgiving dinner.
- pumpkin pie 南瓜派
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