"a brute in human form," 1726, from the race of brutish human creatures in Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." "A made name, prob. meant to suggest disgust" [Century Dictionary]. "Freq. in mod. use, a person lacking cultivation or sensibility, a philistine; a lout; a hooligan" [OED]. The internet search engine so called from 1994.
中文解释
yahoo：来自Gulliver’sTravel里的像人类的粗鲁低下的动物耶胡。——粗鲁的人。
实用例句
1. Yahoo is the oldest and best-known Web directory service.
雅虎是最早且最知名的因特网目录服务网站。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Yahoo, we did it!
啊哈，我们成功了！
来自《权威词典》
3. Nowdays , we have many Internet search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, WebCrawler.