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- a container made of metal and used for cooking food in平底锅。
1.1
- an amount of something contained in such a container一锅的量：
a pan of hot water.
一锅热水。
1.2
- a large container used in a technical or manufacturing process for subjecting a material to heat or a mechanical or chemical process炼锅。
1.3
- a bowl fitted at either end of a pair of scales（天平的）秤盘。
1.4
- another term for STEEL DRUM.同
STEEL DRUM .
1.5
- a shallow bowl in which gold is separated from gravel and mud by agitation and washing（淘金用的）淘选盘。
1.6
- Brit. the bowl of a toilet〈英〉马桶。
1.7
- a hollow in the ground in which water may collect or in which a deposit of salt remains after water has evaporated洼地; 晒盐池。
1.8
- Scottish & Irish short for
PAN-LOAF .〈苏格兰, 爱尔兰〉同PAN-LOAF .
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- a part of the lock that held the priming in old types of gun（旧式枪的）火药池。
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- US informal a face〈美, 非正式〉脸。
3
- a hard stratum of compacted soil土磐; 磐层。
(panned, panning)with obj.
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- （常作be panned）informal criticize (someone or something) severely〈非正式〉严厉地批评：
the movie was panned by the critics.
影片遭到了评论家的严厉批评。
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- wash gravel in a pan to separate out (gold)（用淘选盘）淘（金）：
the old-timers panned gold
老手们用淘选盘淘金
no obj. prospectors panned for gold in the Yukon.采矿者在育空河淘金。
短语
go down the pan
- informal reach a stage of abject failure or uselessness〈非正式〉惨败; 无用：
communities crumble, hospitals are shut, and the economy goes down the pan.
社区崩溃了, 医院关闭了, 经济一蹶不振。
派生词
panful
noun （pl. -fuls）pan-like
adjective词源
Old English panne, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch pan, German Pfanne, perhaps based on Latin patina 'dish'.
短语动词
pan out
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- (of gravel) yield gold（从沙砾中）淘出金子。
1.1
- turn out well成功：
Harold's idea had been a good one even if it hadn't panned out.
哈洛德的想法还是好的, 即使它最终没能成功。
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- end up; conclude结局（是）; 结果（是）：
he's happy with the way the deal panned out.
他对这笔交易的结果很满意。
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panned, panning
with obj. and adverbial of direction swing (a video or film camera) in a horizontal or vertical plane, typically to give a panoramic effect or follow a subject（尤指为了拍摄全景或跟拍）摄全景, 摇摄。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction(of a camera) be swung in such a way（摄影机）摇摄：
the camera panned to the dead dictator.
镜头摇向死去的独裁者。
- a panning movement摇摄动作：
that slow pan over London.
伦敦上空缓慢的全景拍摄。
短语
pan and scan
- a technique for narrowing the aspect ratio of a widescreen film to fit the squarer shape of a television screen by continuously selecting the portion of the original picture with the most significance, rather than just the middle portion全景与扫描（一种缩小宽银幕电影的纵横比以适合电视机方形屏幕的技术, 方法是不断地选取原图像中最有效的部分, 而不仅是中间部分）。
词源
early 20th cent.: abbreviation of PANORAMA .