squint

英 [skwɪnt] 美[skwɪnt]
  • vi. 眯眼看;斜视;窥视;偏移
  • vt. 使斜眼;眯眼看
  • n. 斜视;斜孔小窗;一瞥
  • adj. 斜视的;斜的

GRE扩展词汇TEM8低频词

词态变化


第三人称单数: squints;过去式: squinted;过去分词: squinted;现在分词: squinting;

助记提示


音:斜看她
2. 谐音“色看她”----色色的看她,当然是偷偷的斜眼看他。
3. skew => squint.

英文词源


squint
squint: [14] Squint is short for the now nearly defunct asquint [13], which may have been based on the ancestor of Dutch schuinte ‘slope, slant’, a derivative of schuin ‘sideways, sloping’. The origins of this are not known.
squint (adj.)
1570s, "looking different ways; looking obliquely," shortened form of asquint (adv.). Meaning "looking indirectly" is from 1610s.
squint (v.)
1590s, from squint (adj.). Related: Squinted; squinting.
squint (n.)
"non-coincidence of the optic axes," 1650s, from squint (adj.). Meaning "sidelong glance" is from 1660s.

双语例句


1. The bright sunlight made me squint.
强烈的阳光刺得我眯起了眼。

来自柯林斯例句

2. to squint into the sun
瞇起眼睛看太阳

来自《权威词典》

3. A squint can sometimes be corrected by an eyepatch.
斜视有时候可以通过戴眼罩来纠正.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. The sun was shinning straight in her eyes which made her squint.
太阳直射着她的眼睛,使她眯起了眼睛.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. He lost his glasses and had to squint into the dark.
他把眼镜丢了,不得不眯着眼在黑地上走.

来自辞典例句