no obj., with adverbial of direction
1
- take a brief or hurried look一瞥:
Ginny glanced at her watch.
金妮瞥了一眼自己的表。
1.1
glance at/through
read quickly or cursorily匆匆(或粗略地)阅读, 浏览:I glanced through your personnel file last night.
昨晚我粗略地看了一下你的人事档案。
2
- hit something at an angle and bounce off obliquely斜击某物后斜弹开来:
he saw a stone glance off a crag and hit Tom on the head.
他看到一块石头打到岩壁后弹开, 击中了汤姆的头部。
2.1
- (especially of light) reflect off (something) with a brief flash(尤指光反射后)闪光; 闪耀:
sunlight glanced off the curved body of a dolphin.
阳光熠熠闪烁在海豚蜷曲的身体上。
2.2
- with obj. and adverbial of direction(in ball games) deflect (the ball) slightly with a delicate contact(球类运动用语)轻擦, 轻抹(球, 以调整其方向):
he glanced the ball into the right corner of the net.
他将球轻轻一推, 打进了球门右角。
2.3
- with obj. Cricket deflect (the ball) with the bat held slantwise; play such a stroke against (the bowler)【板球】斜击(球); 朝(投手)斜击一球。
1
- a brief or hurried look一瞥:
Sean and Michael exchanged glances.
肖恩和迈克尔互递眼色。
2
- poetic/literary a flash or gleam of light〈诗/文〉(光的)闪烁, 闪耀。
3
- Cricket a stroke with the bat's face turned slantwise to deflect the ball slightly【板球】斜击。
短语
at a glance
- immediately upon looking(看)一眼(就); 马上:
she saw at a glance what had happened.
她一眼就看出发生了什么事。
at first glance
- when seen or considered for the first time, especially briefly乍看上去, 第一眼就; 乍一想:
good news, at first glance, for frequent travellers.
乍一看, 对常出门的人来说是好事。
glance one's eye
- archaic look briefly〈古〉浏览, 扫视:
glancing his severe eye around the group.
他严厉地扫视了一下那群人。
派生词
glancingly
adverb词源
late Middle English (in the sense 'rebound obliquely'): probably a nasalized form of obsolete glace in the same sense, from Old French glacier 'to slip', from glace 'ice', based on Latin glacies.