askance的意思|askance的解释-里氏词典

askance [ә'skæns]

ad. 怀疑地, 斜眼看

The young man looked askance at the price.
那个年青人对那个价目侧目而视。
She looked at me rather askance.
她不悦地瞟了我一眼。
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。

askance

[ adv ]

with suspicion or disapproval

<adv.all>

he looked askance at the offer

with a side or oblique glance

<adv.all>

did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes

[ adj ]

(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

<adj.all>

her eyes with their misted askance look

sidelong glances

Askance \A*skance"\, Askant \A*skant"\, adv. [Cf. D. schuin,
schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf.
{Asquint}.]
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy,
or suspicion.

They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.

My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.

Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.

Askance \A*skance"\, v. t.
To turn aside. [Poet.]

O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
--Shak.

They also look somewhat askance at the company's efforts to exploit its name by plastering it on cruise-ship casinos.
With the industry concerned about recession, buyers may be looking askance at a number of Burlington's apparel fabrics businesses, which are vulnerable to imports.
Its bankers will surely look askance if there is not some more tangible sign of improvement.
Many Soviets look askance at Mrs. Gorbachev, whose wardrobe is large and glamorous by Soviet standards.
Mr. Sununu was more cautious yesterday, saying on NBC's "Meet the Press" that "The White House would be likely to look askance" at taxes.
This endangered her livelihood, prompting her father to look askance at Mesmer's cure.
Obviously, some legislators looked askance at big business riding to the rescue and wondered, who elected Jim Bob Moffett?
FEMINISTS HAVE long looked askance at Fred L. Hartley, chairman and chief executive officer of Unocal Corp.

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