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askance是什么意思

askance

英 [?'sk?ns; ?'skɑ?ns] 美 [?'sk?ns]

adv. 懷疑地；斜視地

中文詞源

askance 斜的

可能同輔音根s-k, 表示歪，斜，見askance, 斜的。askew, 斜的。skew，斜的。

英文詞源

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.

雙語例句

1. "Do you play chess?" he asked, looking askance at Miguel.: “你會下棋嗎？”他斜睨著米格爾問道。

2. They have always looked askance at the western notion of democracy.: 他們一直都懷疑西方的民主觀。

3. She was looked at askance.: 人們都側目瞧著她.

4. Carrie looked at him askance, half - suspicious of an appeal.: 嘉莉斜眼看著他, 有幾分猜到他要有所要求了.

5. Of course nobody looked askance at that sort of thing in Chengtu.: 這樣的事在省城里并不奇怪.

askance是什么意思

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