Glance

Definition

glance / glɑ:ns; US glæns / v ၁။ ဖ်တ္ခနဲၾကည့္သည္။ She glanced shyly at him and then lowered her eyes. ❍ glance at one's watch ❍ glance round a room ❍ I glanced up to see who had come in. ၂။ ~ at/ down/ over/ through sth မ်က္စိတစ္ခ်က္ ေဝ့ၾကည့္လိုက္သည္။ glance at the newspapers ❍ glance down a list of names ❍ glance over/ through a letter. ၃။ ခရစ္ကက္ကစားရာတြင္ ေဘာလံုး ကို ဘက္တံႏွင့္တေစာင္းရွပ္ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ၄။ အေရာင္ ဟပ္သည္။ sunlight glancing on/ off the water. n ~ (at sb/ sth) (ဖ်တ္ခနဲၾကည့္ေသာ) အၾကည့္။ take/ have/ cast a glance at the newspaper headlines ❍ We exchanged glances (ie looked quickly at each other). ❍ a brief/ casual/ fleeting/ furtive glance ❍ She walked away without a backward glance. ❍ ( fig ) Before the end of the programme, let's take a glance at (ie refer briefly to) the sports news. ❏ at a (single) glance [ IDM ] တစ္ခ်က္ၾကည့္႐ံုမွ်ျဖင့္။ He could tell at a glance what was wrong with the car. ❏ at first glance/ sight [ IDM ] ျမင္ျမင္ခ်င္း။ အေပၚယံ အားျဖင့္။ At first glance the problem seemed easy. ❍ It was love at first sight/ glance. ❏ glance off (sth) [ PHRV ] ရွပ္ထိသည္။ ေခ်ာ္ထြက္သည္။ The ball glanced off the goalpost into the net. ❍ The tree was so hard that the blows of the axe simply glanced off. ❏ glancing /'glɑ:nsÇŋ; US 'glænsÇŋ / adj ရွပ္ထိသြား ေသာ။ strike sb a glancing blow.

Examples

1. [glance at/over/toward etc] : He glanced over his shoulder nervously.
2. I glanced up to see Guido watching me from the window.
3. Robin glanced around the room.
4. ‘I must go
5. ’ Claudia said
6. glancing at her watch.
7. [glance at/through] : I hadn’t even glanced at the report.