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Askance

英式发音:['skns;'skɑns] or ['skns] 美式发音

    (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'.

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Askance

双语例句


  • 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. 科学通论.
  • 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
  • He eyed Bumble askance, as he entered, but scarcely deigned to nod his head in acknowledgment of his salutation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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