1
- no obj. look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light（为了能看清楚或由于强光而）眯着眼看：
the bright sun made them squint.
明亮的阳光使他们眯起眼来。
1.1
- with obj. partly close (one's eyes) for such reasons（为看得更清楚或因强光而）眯着（眼睛）看。
2
- no obj. have eyes that look in different directions斜着眼; 眼睛斜视：
Melanie did not squint.
梅勒妮没有斜视。
2.1
- (of a person's eye) have a deviation in the direction of its gaze（人的眼睛）患斜视; 患斜眼：
her left eye squinted slightly.
她的左眼有点斜视。
1
- in sing. a permanent deviation in the direction of the gaze of one eye斜视, 斜眼, 斜眼症：
I had a bad squint.
我斜视得很厉害。
2
- in sing. informal a quick or casual look〈非正式〉瞟, 瞥：
let me have a squint.
让我瞟一眼。
3
- an oblique opening through a wall in a church permitting a view of the altar from an aisle or side chapel斜视孔（从走廊或副礼拜堂看祭坛的墙上斜孔）。
- chiefly Scottish not straight or level〈主苏格兰〉不直的, 歪的; 不平的, 斜的。
派生词
squinter
noun患斜眼的人
squinty
adjective斜眼的。
词源
mid 16th cent. （in the sense 'squinting', as in SQUINT-EYED）： shortening of ASQUINT.