OK: [19] Few English expressions have had so many weird and wonderful explanations offered for their origin as OK. There is still some doubt about it, but the theory now most widely accepted is that the letters stand for oll korrect, a facetious early 19th-century American phonetic spelling of all correct; and that this was reinforced by the fact that they were also coincidentally the initial letters of Old Kinderhook, the nickname of US president Martin Van Buren (who was born in Kinderhook, in New York State), which were used as a slogan in the presidential election of 1840 (a year after the first record of OK in print).
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1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c. 1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (such as K.G. for "no go," as if spelled "know go;" N.C. for "'nuff ced;" K.Y. for "know yuse"). In the case of O.K., the abbreviation is of "oll korrect."
Probably further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren's 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. village of Kinderhook. Van Buren lost, the word stuck, in part because it filled a need for a quick way to write an approval on a document, bill, etc. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh "it is so" (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. Greek immigrants to America who returned home early 20c. having picked up U.S. speech mannerisms were known in Greece as okay-boys, among other things.
The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932.
OK 英文释义
1. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition;
"an all-right movie"
"the passengers were shaken up but are all right"
"is everything all right?"
"everything's fine"
"things are okay"
"dinner and the movies had been fine"
"another minute I'd have been fine"
OK 双语例句
1. OK. Now, let's talk some business.
好了，我们现在言归正传吧。
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2. His doctor wouldn't OK the trip.
医生不会同意他去旅行。
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3. I shouted out "I'm OK"
我大声喊道“我没事”。
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4. "OK, whatever you say," he had agreed peaceably.
“好吧，你说什么都行，”他和气地同意了。
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5. We'll get together next week, OK?
我们下周聚一聚，好吗？
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OK 实用场景例句
OK. Now, let's talk some business.
好了，我们现在言归正传吧。
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His doctor wouldn't OK the trip.
医生不会同意他去旅行。
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I shouted out "I'm OK"
我大声喊道“我没事”。
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"OK, whatever you say," he had agreed peaceably.
“好吧，你说什么都行，”他和气地同意了。
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We'll get together next week, OK?
我们下周聚一聚，好吗？
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Aside from a few scratches, I'm OK.
除了几处擦伤外，我安然无恙。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
You're looking a little peaky. Are you OK?
你看来有点憔悴。你没事吧？
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OK, Sleeping Beauty, time to get up.
好啦，睡美人，该起床了。
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We've got the OK from the council at last.
我们终于获得了委员会的同意.
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OK, I have decided on buying the jacket. How much is it?
好吧, 我已经决定买这件夹克衫了. 多少钱?
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He says it's OK, but I'll just crosscheck that with them.
他说这就可以了, 但我还要同他们再核查一下.
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I think I did OK in the exam.
我认为我考得不错.
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We'll go to the cinema tomorrow, OK?
咱们明天去看电影好 吗 ?
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The car goes OK now.
这辆车现在行驶状况良好.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
"Just tell him Sir Kenneth would like to talk to him." — "OK."
