Askance
[ə'skæns;ə'skɑːns] or [ə'skæns]
解釋/意思:
(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'- Elizabeth Bowen; 'sidelong glances' .
(adv.) with a side or oblique glance; 'did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes'.
(adv.) with suspicion or disapproval; 'he looked askance at the offer'.
弗洛伊德手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(adv.) Alt. of Askant
(v. t.) To turn aside.
戈代娃手打
同義詞及近義詞:
ad. Obliquely, sidewise, askew, aslant, on one side.
校對:雷明顿
解釋/意思:
adv. sideways: awry: obliquely: with a side glance or with a side meaning.—v.t. (Shak.) to turn aside.—To eye look or view askance to look at with suspicion.
手打:斯蒂芬
例句/造句/用法:
- Many housewives look askance at ready-made baking powders and prefer to bake with soda and sour milk, soda and buttermilk, or soda and cream of tartar. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The two officers, looking at the prostrate Bacchanalian, and askance at each other, exchanged the most frightful sympathetic grins. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
手打:斯蒂芬