By 1840, it served as a slogan for President Martin Van Buren’s unsuccessful reelection campaign. “Old Kinderhook is OK,” posters proclaimed, a reference to the eighth president’s birthplace and his partisans’ belief in his generally satisfactory performance.
在1840年,OK成为美国总统马丁·范布伦竞选连任的宣传标语,虽然范布伦最后失败了。海报上写着“金德胡克很OK”,金德胡克指的是这位第八任美国总统的出生地。这句口号显示了跟随马丁·范布伦的党派对他的政治表现总体上还是比较满意的。
OK was picked up by telegraph operators as an easy abbreviation to say they received transmission, and in 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s first words spoken on the moon were “OK. Engine stop,” says Allan Metcalf, author of “OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word.”
OK早先被电报员们广泛使用,是表达他们接收成功的简易缩写。《OK:美国最伟大词语不可思议的故事》一书作者艾伦·梅特卡夫说:“在1969年,宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林在月球上说的第一句话就是 ‘OK,发动机停止’。”
After all, to activate Google Glass, you don’t say, “OMG, Glass,” you say, “OK, Glass.”
而且,谷歌眼镜的语音启动是“OK, Glass”而不是“OMG, Glass”。
“We happen to know the exact date and place of the very first ‘OK’ and that’s not very usual for many words so why not celebrate that day?” says Metcalf, whose book built on Read’s earlier research.
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