形容詞 copacetic:

1. completely satisfactory- John O'Hara
   同義詞：copasetic, copesetic, copesettic

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(shí)真人，英國(guó)人是最棒的.(約翰·奧哈拉)

來(lái)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(duì)copacetic 這個(gè)詞的詞源所知甚少，其意為.極好的、一流的.。 它是起源于意大利語(yǔ)、南方黑人口語(yǔ)、路易斯安那州的克里奧耳人的法語(yǔ)方言還是希伯來(lái)語(yǔ)？約翰·奧哈拉在撒馬拉的約會(huì) 中用到這個(gè)詞， 他后來(lái)寫(xiě)到copacetic 是.變成哈萊姆黑人居住區(qū)和強(qiáng)盜土語(yǔ)的意大利詞.。 奧哈拉還說(shuō)，.我不知道原來(lái)的意大利詞是如何拼寫(xiě)的，但是有點(diǎn)象copacetti.。與他不敢肯定如何拼寫(xiě)這個(gè)意大利詞一樣，他對(duì)copacetic 一詞本身的拼法也不敢肯定。 Copacetic 曾經(jīng)被拼寫(xiě)成 copasetic, copasetty, copesetic, copisettic 以及 kopasettee。 現(xiàn)在它的拼法多少已經(jīng)固定成copacetic 或 copasetic， 盡管這個(gè)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(qū)的關(guān)系看上去比它和意大利語(yǔ)的關(guān)系更有可能，因?yàn)楹谌司羰扛枋衷眠^(guò)copacetic 這個(gè)詞，并且據(jù)說(shuō)在9世紀(jì)晚期它曾是南方的俚語(yǔ)。 如果copacetic 在詞源上是克里奧耳人的法語(yǔ)， 那么它也是從南方來(lái)的。根據(jù)這一解釋，copacetic 來(lái)自克里奧耳人法語(yǔ)中 coupersetique 一詞， 表示.有能力與人競(jìng)爭(zhēng)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(duì)生活或愛(ài)情有正常的欲望或激情的.。那些認(rèn)為copacetic 來(lái)自希伯來(lái)語(yǔ)或意第緒語(yǔ)的人并不一定否認(rèn)這個(gè)詞與南方的關(guān)系。 一種解釋認(rèn)為，猶太店主們?cè)诒辉儐?wèn)是否一切都好時(shí)用了希伯來(lái)語(yǔ)中的短語(yǔ)kol bμìedeq 即.一切太平.之意， 在店里作工或買(mǎi)東西的黑人兒童將這個(gè)短語(yǔ)聽(tīng)成了copacetic。 在關(guān)于copacetic 詞源的解釋中，包括以上討論的這些，沒(méi)有一種得到學(xué)者們的認(rèn)可， 這一點(diǎn)我們可以在美國(guó)方言英語(yǔ)辭典 （985年出版）第一冊(cè)關(guān)于 copacetic 一詞的詞源解釋中清楚地看到：.詞源不知.