copacetic

詳細解釋：

copacetic 或 co.pa.set.ic

adj.（形容詞）
Excellent; first-rate:
極好的；一流的：
例句：
.You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic.(John O`Hara)
.你必須慧眼識真人，英國人是最棒的.(約翰·奧哈拉)

來源：
[Origin unknown]
[詞源不知]

<注釋>We know very little about the origin of the wordcopacetic, meaning .excellent, first-rate.. Is its origin to be found in Italian, in the speech of southern Black people, in the Creole French dialect of Louisiana, or in HebrewôJohn O`Hara, who used the word inAppointment in Samarra, later wrote thatcopacetic was .a Harlem and gangster corruption of an Italian word.. O`Hara went on to say, .I don`t know how to spell the Italian,but it`s something like copacetti.. His uncertainty about how to spell the Italian is paralleled by uncertainty about how to spellcopacetic itself. Copacetic has been recorded with the spellings copasetic, copasetty, copesetic, copisettic, and kopasettee. The spelling is now more or less fixed, however, ascopacetic or copasetic, even though the origin of the word has not been determined.The Harlem connection mentioned by O`Hara would seem more likely than the Italian,sincecopacetic was used by Black jazz musicians and is said to have been Southern slang in the late 9th century. Ifcopacetic is Creole French in origin, it would also have a Southern homeland.According to this explanation,copacetic came from the Creole French word coupersètique, which meant .able to be coped with,. .able to cope with anything and everything,. .in good form,.and also .having a healthy appetite or passion for life or love..Those who support the Hebrew or Yiddish origin ofcopacetic do not necessarily deny the Southern connections of the word. One explanation has it that Jewish storekeepers used the Hebrew phrasekol bμìedeq, .all with justice,.when asked if things were O.K. Black children who were in the store as customers or employees heard this phrase ascopacetic. No explanation of the origin ofcopacetic, including the ones discussed here, has won the approval of scholars, as is clearly shown by the etymology ofcopacetic in the first volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English, published in 985: .Etym unknown..
我們對copacetic 這個詞的詞源所知甚少，其意為.極好的、一流的.。 它是起源於義大利語、南方黑人口語、路易斯安那州的克里奧耳人的法文方言還是希伯來語？約翰·奧哈拉在撒馬拉的約會 中用到這個詞， 他後來寫到copacetic 是.變成哈萊姆黑人居住區和強盜土語的義大利詞.。 奧哈拉還說，.我不知道原來的義大利詞是如何拼寫的，但是有點象copacetti.。與他不敢肯定如何拼寫這個義大利詞一樣，他對copacetic 一詞本身的拼法也不敢肯定。 Copacetic 曾經被拼寫成 copasetic, copasetty, copesetic, copisettic 以及 kopasettee。 現在它的拼法多少已經固定成copacetic 或 copasetic， 儘管這個詞的詞源仍未被確定。奧哈拉所提及的它與哈萊姆黑人居住區的關係看上去比它和義大利語的關係更有可能，因為黑人爵士歌手曾用過copacetic 這個詞，並且據說在9世紀晚期它曾是南方的俚語。 如果copacetic 在詞源上是克里奧耳人的法文， 那么它也是從南方來的。根據這一解釋，copacetic 來自克里奧耳人法文中 coupersetique 一詞， 表示.有能力與人競爭的.、.有能力處理任何事情及一切事情的.、.以好的方式的.，還表示.對生活或愛情有正常的欲望或激情的.。那些認為copacetic 來自希伯來語或意第緒語的人並不一定否認這個詞與南方的關係。 一種解釋認為，猶太店主們在被詢問是否一切都好時用了希伯來語中的短語kol bμìedeq 即.一切太平.之意， 在店裡作工或買東西的黑人兒童將這個短語聽成了copacetic。 在關於copacetic 詞源的解釋中，包括以上討論的這些，沒有一種得到學者們的認可， 這一點我們可以在美國方言英文辭典 （985年出版）第一冊關於 copacetic 一詞的詞源解釋中清楚地看到：.詞源不知.