glance
verbVerb Forms
Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they glance | |
he / she / it glances | |
past simple glanced | |
past participle glanced | |
-ing form glancing |
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
to look quickly at something/somebody 瞥一眼;匆匆一看;扫视 She glanced at her watch. 她匆匆看了看表。 He glanced around the room. 他环视了一下房间。 I glanced up quickly to see who had come in. 我迅速抬头瞥了一眼看是谁进来了。
Extra ExamplesAt that moment she happened to glance up. 那时她碰巧抬头瞥了一眼。 He glanced covertly at his watch. 他偷偷地看了一下手表。 He glanced curiously around him. 他好奇地扫视着四周。 He glanced towards the kitchen. 他朝厨房看去。 He turned to glance in our direction. 他转身向我们这边看了一眼。 Norton glanced sharply at him. 诺顿以犀利的目光瞥了他一眼。 She barely glanced at him. 她几乎看都不看他一眼。 She glanced across to where the others were standing chatting. 她朝站着聊天的其他人那边看过去。 She glanced nervously over her shoulder. 她紧张地向身后看了一眼。 glancing curiously about him 好奇地扫了他一眼
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- briefly
- quickly
- sharply
- …
- pause to
- turn to
- happen to
- …
- about
- around
- round
- …
- [intransitive] glance at/down/over/through something
to read something quickly and not carefully or completely synonym scan浏览;粗略地看 I only had time to glance at my emails. 我只有时间浏览我的电子邮件。 He glanced briefly down the list of names. 他草草看了一遍名单。 She glanced through the report. 她浏览了一下报告。
Extra ExamplesShe glanced through the report on the way to the meeting. 在去开会的路上,她大致浏览了一下报告。 She glanced briefly at his lapel badge. 她扫了一眼他翻领上的徽章。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- briefly
- quickly
- sharply
- …
- pause to
- turn to
- happen to
- …
- about
- around
- round
- …
Word Originlate 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.