yikes

表示震惊、惊 alarm 或对糟糕情况的同情的非正式感叹词，常译为“天哪”“糟了”或“哎呀”。

💡 记忆钩子

把它想成突然看到坏消息时倒吸一口气：事情当场吓到你，就喊“天哪”；听别人说了糟糕遭遇，虽然不是自己受惊，也可以用同一个感叹表示“哎呀，真糟”。

📝 学习建议

先把它和“突然发现麻烦或坏消息”的场景一起记，再扩展到听闻别人遭遇不幸时的同情反应。
不要把它当成有具体事物含义的普通单词；它主要表达说话人的即时情绪。

📖 中文释义

intj

core 天哪；糟了

📖 看到或想到突然、严重或令人担心的事情时，用它表达震惊和警觉，核心感觉就是“事情不妙，怎么会这样”。

💡 句首直接用“Yikes! + 事情”或单独说“Yikes!”；后面常接短句、名词短语或对眼前情况的描述。它是非正式、常带幽默或夸张的感叹，不宜用于正式场合。不要把它误当作表示疼痛、愤怒或命令的词，具体情绪要由上下文判断。

humorous informal often

Yikes! A monster!

天哪！有个怪物！
core 哎呀，真糟

📖 听到别人失业、受伤或遇到其他不顺时，用它表示“那可真糟”，重点是对对方处境的同情，而不一定表示自己受到了惊吓。

💡 可用“Yikes! + 坏消息”或单独用“Yikes!”回应别人的遭遇，通常放在回应的开头。它是非正式的同情反应，往往带一点轻微的幽默或震惊。不要只把它理解成幸灾乐祸；语气和上下文决定它是关切、尴尬还是夸张反应。

humorous informal often

John has lost his job and can't pay his mortgage; yikes!

约翰丢了工作，连房贷都付不起了；哎呀，真糟！

🌳 词源

词源尚无定论，可能与表示催促猎犬的呼喊词或较早的类似感叹词有关，也可能是几种声音和感叹词的混合。

Attested from mid-20th century, perhaps derived from yoicks, a hunting call used to urge hounds after a fox, which is attested from 1765–1775, that also is sometimes used as an exclamation of excitement or triumph. Yoicks is perhaps related to the earlier hoicks. Hoicks (alternatively hoick, hoic or hoik) is a variant of hyke, which was used as an exclamation of encouragement to hounds hunting deer. Further etymology unknown. Alternatively, it may be derived from yipes, which is an earlier exclamation of similar usage as yikes (and is often considered to be an alternative form of yikes). Yipes may be derived from yipe, which itself may be derived from the yie sound often used to express pain or dismay, with the -p adding onto it in the same way as yep and nope. Or, yipes may be derived from the yipping sound that dogs make. Or, possibly a conflation of both of the previous.

🔄 变式

yipes alternative

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