squint
英 [skwɪnt]
美 [skwɪnt]
- vi.目を細める；目を細める；覗き込む；そらす
- vt.目を細める；目を細める
- n. 目を細める；小窓から目を細める；ちらちら見る
- adj.目を細める；斜めにする
英語の語源
- 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.
例文
- 1. The bright sunlight made me squint .
- 強い日差しが目を細めた。
- 2.to squint into the sun
- 目を細めて太陽を見る
- 3.A squint can sometimes be corrected by an eyepatch.
- 斜視はアイマスクをすることで修正できる場合がある.
- 4.The sun was shinning straight in her eyes which made her squint .
- 太陽が彼女の目を直射し、目を細めた。
- 5.He lost his glasses and had to squint into the dark.
- 彼は眼鏡をなくし、黒地に目を細めて歩かなければならなかった。
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