askance

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副词

askance（无比较级）

1. （扫视） 不赞成地；怀疑地

   The beggar asked for change, but the haughty woman only looked at him askance.

   • 1932 — Clark Ashton Smith, The Maker of Gargoyles

     The scandal of opposition died down, and the stone-carver himself, though the town-folk continued to eye him askance, was able to secure other work through the favor of discriminating patrons.

2. 倾斜地; 躲躲闪闪地
   • 1896 — H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, chapter 8

     I glanced askance at this strange creature, and found him watching me with his queer, restless eyes.

   • 1878 — Henry James, The Europeans, chapter 1

     ...the head-stones in the grave-yard beneath seemed to be holding themselves askance to keep it out of their faces.

同义词

• （不赞成地；怀疑地）： skeptically, suspiciously
• （倾斜地; 躲躲闪闪地）： obliquely, sideways

翻译

  不赞成地看；怀疑地看 

Finnish: karsaasti

  倾斜地; 躲躲闪闪地 

Finnish: sivuttain (sideways), nurkkasilmällä (obliquely)

形容词

原形 askance，无比较级。

1. 倾斜着，特别是眼睛
   • 1855 — Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

     My first thought was, he lied in every word,
     That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
     Askance to watch the working of his lie

同义词

• （倾斜着）： oblique, sideways