单词 | glance off (something) |
释义 | glance off (something)glance off (something) phrasal verbphr v a) HIT/BUMP INTOto hit a surface at an angle and then move away from it in another direction 击中…后弹开,擦过 SYN ricochet The bullet had crushed his helmet and glanced off. 子弹打碎了他的头盔后被弹飞。 b) literary if light glances off a surface, it flashes or shines back from it 〔光〕从…反射回来;闪烁 SYN reflect off The sun was glancing off the icy tips of gleaming rock. 闪闪发亮的岩石上,太阳光照着冰凌子熠熠生辉。 Examples from the Corpus glance off • The bullet had crushed his helmet and glanced off.• Occasionally he asked a question or sought an opinion; you had the impression that the answer had glanced off his surface.• The first blow landed on my heart and was terrible; the second had absently glanced off my arm.• Yet its light was undimmed and it glanced off the metal buildings as far as the eye could see.• They glanced off the puppet's head and fell to the floor.• When I threw, the ax glanced off with a clatter.• But where did Ewan Beg's blade go, when it glanced off your axe, and all his strength behind it? → glance off (something) at glance1(1) |
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