glance

• n. 一瞥；一滑；閃光
• vi. 掃視，匆匆一看；反光；瞥閃，瞥見
• vt. 掃視；瞥見；擦過
• n. (Glance)人名；(英)格蘭斯

來自拉丁文glacies, 冰，詞源同cold,插入鼻音字母n. 即冰上滑過的光線，引申義瞥過。

glance

glance: [15] ‘Touch or deflect lightly’, as in ‘glance off something’ and a ‘glancing blow’, is the primary meaning of glance; ‘look briefly’ did not develop until the 16th century. The word may have originated as an alteration of the Middle English verb glacen ‘glide, slide’ (probably under the influence of Middle English glenten, the ancestor of modern English glint). Glacen was borrowed from Old French glacier ‘slide’, a derivative of glace ‘ice’ (from which English also gets glacier).
=> glacier

glance (n.)

c. 1500, "a sudden movement producing a flash," from glance (v.). Meaning "brief or hurried look" is from 1590s.

glance (v.)

mid-15c., of weapons, "strike obliquely without giving full impact," a nasalized form of glacen "to graze, strike a glancing blow" (c. 1300), from Old French glacier "to slip, make slippery" (compare Old French glaciere "part of a knight's armor meant to deflect blows"), from glace "ice" (see glacial). Sense of "look quickly" (first recorded 1580s) probably was by influence of Middle English glenten "look askance" (see glint (v.)), which also could account for the -n-. Related: Glanced; glancing.

1. Burke cast a cursory glance at the menu, then flapped it shut.

伯克匆匆地瞥了一眼菜單，然後啪地合上了。

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2. He stole a glance at the clock behind her.

他偷偷地看了一眼她背後的鍾。

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3. In those crowded streets her attire did not rate a second glance.

在那些擁擠的街道她的穿著並未引起注意。

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4. She cast a wry glance in her grandmother's direction.

她朝奶奶無可奈何地瞟了一眼。

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5. She took her eyes off the road to glance at me.

她把視線從公路上移開，掃了我一眼。

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