| 单词 | askance |
| 释义 | a·skance /əˈskæns, əˈskɑːns $ əˈskæns/ adverb look askance (at somebody/something) DISAPPROVEif you look askance at someone or something, you do not approve of them or think they are good 〔以鄙视的眼光〕（对某人/某物）侧目，瞟视 A waiter looked askance at Ellis’s jeans. 一个侍者斜瞟了一眼埃利斯的牛仔裤。Examples from the Corpusaskance• The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.• If a student comes to me with a well-constructed play nowadays, I look a little askance at it.• They came in diffidently, nodded respectfully to Wilcox, and looked askance at Robyn.• No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.• It often looked askance at the mainland.• Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.• Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.Origin askance (1400-1500) Perhaps from Italian a scancio “across”a·skance adverbChineseSyllable or if do askance you Corpus someone you look not at something, |
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