英汉词典

askance 基本解释

• adv. 怀疑地；斜视地

askance 中文词源

可能同辅音根s-k, 表示歪，斜，见askance, 斜的。askew, 斜的。skew，斜的。

askance 英文词源

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.

askance 英文释义

1. (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"

askance 双语例句

1. "Do you play chess?" he asked, looking askance at Miguel.

“你会下棋吗？”他斜睨着米格尔问道。

来自柯林斯例句

2. They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.

他们一直都怀疑西方的民主观。

来自柯林斯例句

3. She was looked at askance.

人们都侧目瞧着她.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. Carrie looked at him askance, half - suspicious of an appeal.

嘉莉斜眼看着他, 有几分猜到他要有所要求了.

来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

5. Of course nobody looked askance at that sort of thing in Chengtu.

这样的事在省城里并不奇怪.

来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

askance 实用场景例句

They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.

他们一直都怀疑西方的民主观。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

'Do you play chess?' he asked, looking askance at Miguel.

“你会下棋吗？”他斜睨着米格尔问道。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They look askance at " excessive " job mobility, which breeds insecurity.

过度的工作流动衍生社会不安全,他们对此表示怀疑.

期刊摘选

He looked askance at the offer.

他并不接受这个报价.

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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.

辞典例句

Weak , inexperienced and friendless, they are eyed askance by even their fellow pulleys.

没有力气, 没有经验,没有朋友, 就是在同行的当中也得不到好气儿.

汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子

Of course nobody looked askance at that sort of thing in Chengtu.

这样的事在省城里并不奇怪.

汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

Sargent peered askance through his slanted glasses.

萨金特透过歪戴着的眼镜斜睨着他.

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He smiled, glancing askance at her mocking eye.

他微笑着, 朝她那神色调皮的眼睛斜瞟了一眼.

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She looks at me rather askance when I suggest a swim in the nude.

我提议裸体游泳,她就瞟了我一眼.

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Do not look askance at me from afar.

不要远远地斜视我.

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For senior courtiers who have and look askance at his successor, an exit will be welcome.

对那些看不起王储的国王廷臣来说, 去职将遂王储之愿.

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She looked at me rather askance.

她不悦地瞟了我一眼.

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Danglars looked at him askance, as though to ascertain whether he spoke seriously.

腾格拉尔斜眼望着他,看他说话的态度是否在取笑他.

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She looked at him askance and took a forkful of food from his plate.

她斜视着瑞克,从他的餐盘里取了一勺食物.

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Inelegant park men and women behavior is askance at really by person!

公园男女不雅行为真让人侧目!

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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.

期刊摘选

The young man looked askance at the price.

那个年青人对那个价目侧目而视.

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The peasants, for their part , looked askance at the intellectuals.

农民也看不惯知识分子.

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Do not askance at me from afar.

不要在远处斜视着我.

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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.

辞典例句

They looked askance at her suggestion.

他们对她的建议不以为然.

辞典例句

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.

期刊摘选

The kids were eyeing him askance.

孩子们斜眼看他.

辞典例句

My family looked askance when I ordered snails as a first course in the restaurant.

当我在饭店里要的第一道菜是蜗牛时,全家都讨厌地看着我.

期刊摘选

She was looked at askance.

人们都侧目瞧着她.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

We all looked upon it askance.

我们全都侧目而视.

辞典例句

"Do you play chess?" he asked, looking askance at Miguel.

“你会下棋吗？”他斜睨着米格尔问道。

柯林斯例句

They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.

他们一直都怀疑西方的民主观。

柯林斯例句