• int. 喂；哈羅
• n. 表示問候， 驚奇或喚起注意時的用語
• n. (Hello)人名；(法)埃洛

感嘆詞，打招呼用語，因電話的普及而廣泛流行。最終可能來自hey和lo的合成詞。

hello

1883, alteration of hallo, itself an alteration of holla, hollo, a shout to attract attention, which seems to go back to at least c. 1400. Perhaps from holla! "stop, cease." OED cites Old High German hala, hola, emphatic imperative of halon, holon "to fetch," "used especially in hailing a ferryman." Fowler lists halloo, hallo, halloa, halloo, hello, hillo, hilloa, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, hollow, hullo, and writes, "The multiplicity of forms is bewildering ...." Popularity as a greeting coincides with use of the telephone, where it won out over Alexander Graham Bell's suggestion, ahoy. Central telephone exchange operators were known as hello-girls (1889).

Hello, formerly an Americanism, is now nearly as common as hullo in Britain (Say who you are; do not just say 'hello' is the warning given in our telephone directories) and the Englishman cannot be expected to give up the right to say hello if he likes it better than his native hullo. [H.W. Fowler, "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," 1926]

1. I answered the phone and this voice went, "Hello? Is that Alison?"

我拿起電話，就聽到這個聲音：“喂？是艾利森嗎？”

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2. A moment later, Cohen picked up the phone. "Hello?"

過了一會兒，科恩接起電話。“喂？”

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3. "Hello, I don't think we've met," Robert introduced himself.

“你好，我想我們還沒有見過吧，”羅伯特自我介紹道。

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4. "Hello there," said the woman, smiling at them.— 'Hi!' they chorused.

“嘿，你們好！”那個女人笑著對他們說。——“你好！”他們齊聲說。

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5. Hello Freddy, it's only me, Maxine.

你好，弗蕾迪！是我，瑪克辛。

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