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whoops

/woops, woops, hwoops, hwoops/US // wʊps, wups, ʰwʊps, ʰwups //UK // (wʊps) //

呜呼,呜呼哀哉,糟糕

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interj.感叹词 interjection
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    Examples

    • Of course, this was greeted with a round of applause and whoops from her room of willingly incarcerated followers.

    • Private, intimate, dirty things are captured and then—whoops!

    • All those roads and systems have to be maintained . . .and whoops!

    • “This campaign is going to go on to South Carolina,” Gingrich vowed—to dutiful whoops.

    • More giddy people climb aboard, and again we erupt into applause and whoops.

    • The Triangle X boys uttered whoops, and joined the game at speed.

    • Roused from sound slumbers by blood-curdling Indian war whoops, a few escaped, but only to die of cold on their way to Albany.

    • In the aftermath of the cannon's roar came whoops of delight from nearly a hundred small boys in the blockhouse.

    • High-pitched war whoops shrilled out of the forest shadows ahead, and more arrows whistled at them.

    • Then with wild whoops they bounded off to join their comrades who lay stretched on the earth around the ball grounds.