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askance adv. 侧目而视，瞟 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. 【记】ask + 音:看 问问题时看的眼光

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[ə'skæns] 【英】 adv. 侧目而视,瞟(with a sideways or indirect look )【例】 She looks askance at the price. adv. 侧目而视, 瞟(表示不以为然地, 怀疑地, 或不信任的态度)【记】as象, kan看. 象看. 又不是看, 这叫斜视, 俗称—瞟!

单词	askance
音标	[ə'skæns]
解释	adv. 侧目而视，瞟
红宝书	【英】 adv. 侧目而视,瞟(with a sideways or indirect look ) 【例】 She looks askance at the price.
字源	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.
不择手段背单词	adv. 侧目而视, 瞟(表示不以为然地, 怀疑地, 或不信任的态度) 【记】as象, kan看. 象看. 又不是看, 这叫斜视, 俗称—瞟!
趣味全助记	【记】ask + 音:看问问题时看的眼光

Askance Adv Word Oed Middle English French Discussion