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adv. 怀疑地；斜视地
adv.
斜，斜视；
英英释义
askance[ ə'skæns ]
adj.(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy
"her eyes with their misted askance look"
同义词：askantasquintsquintsquint-eyedsquintysidelong
adv.
with suspicion or disapproval
"he looked askance at the offer"
with a side or oblique glance
"did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes"
双语例句
用作副词(adv.)
The young man looked askance at the price.
那个年青人对那个价目侧目而视。
The older women in the town looked askance at what the young people were doing.
镇上上了年纪的女人用怀疑的目光看着年轻人所做的一切。
She looked at me rather askance.
她不悦地瞟了我一眼。
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askance
askance: [16] The origins of askance remain obscure. When it first entered the language it meant literally ‘obliquely, sideways’ (‘He bid his angels turn askance the poles of Earth’, John Milton, Paradise Lost 1667), so a possible source is Italian a scancio ‘obliquely, slantingly’, but this has never been firmly established. Its metaphorical use in the phrase look askance dates from the 17th century.
askance (adv.)
1520s, "sideways, asquint," of obscure origin. OED has separate listings for askance and obsolete Middle English askance(s) and no indication of a connection, but Barnhart and others derive the newer word from the older one. The Middle English word, recorded early 14c. as ase quances and found later in Chaucer, meant "in such a way that; even as; as if;" and as an adverb "insincerely, deceptively." It has been analyzed as a compound of as and Old French quanses (pronounced "kanses") "how if," from Latin quam "how" + si "if."
The E[nglish] as is, accordingly, redundant, and merely added by way of partial explanation. The M.E. askances means "as if" in other passages, but here means, "as if it were," i.e. "possibly," "perhaps"; as said above. Sometimes the final s is dropped .... [Walter W. Skeat, glossary to Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale," 1894]
Also see discussion in Leo Spitzer, "Anglo-French Etymologies," Philological Quarterly 24.23 (1945), and see OED entry for askance (adv.) for discussion of the mysterious ask- word cluster in English. Other guesses about the origin of askance include Old French a escone, from past participle of a word for "hidden;" Italian a scancio "obliquely, slantingly;" or that it is a cognate of askew.1. Of course nobody looked askance at that sort of thing in Chengtu.
这样的事在省城里并不奇怪。
-- 来源 -- 汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26） - jia-09
2. She was looked at askance.
人们都侧目瞧着她。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. The kids were eyeing him askance.
孩子们斜眼看他。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. Disbelieving his unlikely story, she looked askance at Jack.
她用怀疑的目光看着杰克，不相信他那靠不住的叙述。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
5. They looked askance at her suggestion.
他们对她的建议不以为然。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. They looked askance at us there and talked with their heads close together.
他们那边斜着眼看我们，把脑袋凑在一起嘀咕。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. We all looked upon it askance.
我们全都侧目而视。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. She looked at me rather askance when I suggested a swim in the nude
我提议裸体游泳,她就瞟了我一眼
-- 来源 -- life - 汉英
9. The older women in the town looked askance at what the young people were doing.
镇上上了年纪的女人用怀疑的目光看着年轻人所做的一切。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. The woman showed great suspicion and looked askance at everything the shopman offered for sale.
那妇人显出疑心很重的样子，对于店主劝她买的每一样东西，她都投以怀疑的目光。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
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