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Squint Asquint Meaning Adj 6460.Squint 英 Skwɪnt]美 Skwɪnt

正面 6460.squint
英 [skwɪnt]美 [skwɪnt]

背面
释义:
vi. 眯眼看;斜视;窥视;偏移vt. 使斜眼;眯眼看n. 斜视;斜孔小窗;一瞥adj. 斜视的;斜的
例句:
1. The bright sunlight made me squint.强烈的阳光刺得我眯起了眼。

音:斜看她2. 谐音“色看她”----色色的看她,当然是偷偷的斜眼看他。3. skew => squint.

squintsquint: [14] Squint is short for the now nearly defunct asquint [13], which may have been based on the ancestor of Dutch schuinte ‘slope, slant’, a derivative of schuin ‘sideways, sloping’. The origins of this are not known.squint (adj.)1570s, "looking different ways; looking obliquely," shortened form of asquint (adv.). Meaning "looking indirectly" is from 1610s.squint (v.)1590s, from squint (adj.). Related: Squinted; squinting.squint (n.)"non-coincidence of the optic axes," 1650s, from squint (adj.). Meaning "sidelong glance" is from 1660s."

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