"this," as in yay big "this big," 1950s, perhaps from yea "yes" in its sense of "even, truly, verily." "a sort of demonstrative adverb used with adjectives of size, height, extent, etc., and often accompanied by a hand gesture indicating size" [DAS].
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. The fish I caught was yay big.
我釣的魚有這么大呢。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. I was then a naughty little child, only yay high.
我那時(shí)還是個(gè)小頑童, 只有這么高.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
3. As you expected, the sharpness remains in exported images . Yay!