askance
askance 英 [əˈskæns] 美 [əˈskæns]
adv. 怀疑地；斜视地
- You may have trouble watching a gory horror movie, but you also won't be able to look away. Find a happy medium by looking askance, or subtly out of the corner of your eye.
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- adv. 怀疑地；斜视地
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1. Call me Tess, ' she would say askance; and he did.
“叫我苔丝吧，”她说，斜了他一眼；而他也就照办了。
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2. The photograph of Christian that accompanied many of the news stories showed a boy with mussed-up hair and pierced ears with black plugs looking impishly askance at the camera.
很多新闻报道配发了一张克里斯丁本人的照片，在那幅照片中是一个头发乱糟糟的男孩，耳朵插着一个黑色的耳塞，顽皮地斜视着相机的镜头。
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3. Soon after, he dragged me to the Lower East Side where we met an old rabbi, who looked at us a bit askance and said wisely, “You will have a sweet and crazy life together, ” which we did.
很快，他拖着我到了东城，我们遇到一个拉比。 他用有点斜视的目光看着我们，充满睿智的说：“你们将拥有幸福而疯狂的生活。”
- askance (adv.) 1520s, "sideways, asquint, out of the corner of the eye," 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."
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