scan
verb/skæn/
/skæn/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they scan | /skæn/ /skæn/ |
| he / she / it scans | /skænz/ /skænz/ |
| past simple scanned | /skænd/ /skænd/ |
| past participle scanned | /skænd/ /skænd/ |
| -ing form scanning | /ˈskænɪŋ/ /ˈskænɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to look quickly but not very carefully at a document, etc.
粗略地读；浏览；翻阅 - scan something for something I scanned the list quickly for my name.
我很快浏览了一下名单，看有没有我的名字。 - scan something We quickly scanned the menu.
我们快速浏览了菜单。 - scan through something (for something) She scanned through the newspaper over breakfast.
她边吃早饭，边浏览报纸。 - scan for something You should teach students to scan for essential information.
你要教学生浏览关键信息。
Extra Examples- I scanned the paper for news.
我翻看报纸寻找新闻。 - He scanned through the web pages.
他快速浏览网页。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- carefully
- anxiously
- frantically
- …
- for
- across
- around
- …
- scan something for something I scanned the list quickly for my name.
- [transitive] to look at every part of something carefully, especially because you are looking for a particular thing or person
细看；察看；审视；端详 - scan something for something He scanned the horizon for any sign of land.
他仔细眺望地平线，找寻陆地的踪影。 - She scanned the room for an empty seat.
她扫视房间，寻找空座位。 - scan something She scanned his face anxiously.
她急切地端详着他的脸。 - She scanned the street nervously, looking for the two men.
她紧张地扫视街道，寻找那两个人。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- carefully
- anxiously
- frantically
- …
- for
- across
- around
- …
- scan something for something He scanned the horizon for any sign of land.
- [transitive] (computing) to pass light over a picture or document using a scanner in order to copy it and put it in the memory of a computer
把…扫描进；扫描输入 - scan something How do I scan a photo and attach it to an email?
怎样把照片扫描并以附件形式加在电子邮件里呢？ - digitally scanned photographs
数码扫描照片 - This recognizes text in a scanned image.
这可以识别扫描图像中的文本。 - scan something into something The pencil image is scanned into a computer.
铅笔的图像被扫描进了电脑。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- automatically
- digitally
- electronically
- …
- scan something How do I scan a photo and attach it to an email?
- [transitive] scan something to get an image of an object, a part of somebody’s body, etc. on a computer by passing X-rays, ultrasound waves or electromagnetic waves over it in a special machine
（X 射线、超声波、电磁波等）扫描 - Their brains are scanned so that researchers can monitor the progress of the disease.
研究人员对他们的大脑加以扫描，以监视病情的发展。
- Their brains are scanned so that researchers can monitor the progress of the disease.
- [transitive] scan something (of a light, radar, etc.) to pass across an area
扫描；扫掠 - Concealed video cameras scan every part of the compound.
几台暗藏的摄像机把院子里的每一个角落都拍了进去。
- Concealed video cameras scan every part of the compound.
- [intransitive, transitive] scan (something) (computing) (of a program) to examine a computer program or document in order to look for a virus
（为搜索病毒而）扫描（文件） - This software is designed to scan all new files for viruses.
这个软件是为扫描所有新文件的病毒而设计。
- This software is designed to scan all new files for viruses.
- [intransitive] (of poetry) to have a regular rhythm according to fixed rules
符合韵律 - This line doesn't scan.
这一行不合韵律。
- This line doesn't scan.
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb in sense (5)): from Latin scandere ‘climb’ (in late Latin ‘scan (verses)’), by analogy with the raising and lowering of one's foot when marking rhythm. From ‘analyse (metre)’ arose the senses ‘estimate the correctness of’ and ‘examine minutely’, which led to ‘look at searchingly’ (late 18th cent.).