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单词 askance
释义
askance
adverb
uk
/əˈskɑːns/us
/əˈskæns/
look askance
tolookat orthinkabout someone or something withdoubt,disapproval, or notrust:
（不满或怀疑地）斜眼看，瞟
Theylookedaskanceatourscruffyclothes.他们满腹狐疑地看着我们破破烂烂的衣服。
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Cautious and vigilant
(Definition ofaskancefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofaskance

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The papers were about looking, but lookingaskance, like worldviews related, as if unwittingly, to architecture.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Everything that the purists lookaskanceat has its place (and rightly so) in the terminology.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Sociologists don't lookaskanceat ethicists who aim to guide human behavior.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Similarly, it was not the civic elite alone who lookedaskanceupon the theatre.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In addition, the colonial government's commitment to free trade made them lookaskanceat any suggestion of intervening directly in the economy.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Both of them restricted individualism to socially useful striving and lookedaskanceat the self-expanding reveries of the romantics or the explosive enthusiasms of evangelicals.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Even if sections of the public would lookaskance, we must be able to guide the social habits of the country.
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We should not lookaskanceat those widows who are trying to maintain their independence.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The result might astound those who look at us somewhataskance.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
These people lookaskanceat those who, not having paid contributions, benefit from the scheme.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I beg those who lookaskanceat these plans to ponder deeply and responsibly where it is they think they want to go.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
One looksaskanceat this kind of recommendation, and one wants to qualify it when one sees it in print.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
One is looked ataskanceif one comes from an industrial constituency.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I lookaskanceat loans and grants, but to me the idea of equity capital is totally wrong.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Is it any wonder that youth looks with someaskanceat us, the adults, and at what we have done.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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