askance
[ә'skæns]
ad. 疑, 斜看

1. The young man looked askance at the price.
   那青那价目侧目而视。
2. She looked at me rather askance.
   她悦瞟。
3. The older women in the town looked askance at what the young people were doing.
   镇女疑目看着做。

askance
[ adv ]

1. with suspicion or disapproval

<adv.all>
he looked askance at the offer

2. with a side or oblique glance

<adv.all>
did not quite turn all the way back but looked askance at me with her dark eyes

[ adj ]

1. (used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

<adj.all>
her eyes with their misted askance look
sidelong glances

Askance \A*skance"\, Askant \A*skant"\, adv. [Cf. D. schuin,
schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf.
{Asquint}.]
Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy,
or suspicion.

They dart away; they wheel askance. --Beattie.

My palfrey eyed them askance. --Landor.

Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.
--Gladstone.


Askance \A*skance"\, v. t.
To turn aside. [Poet.]

O, how are they wrapped in with infamies
That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes!
--Shak.