pan
n
(often in compounds 常用以構成復合詞)
1
(a) wide flat (usu metal) container, with a handle or handles, used for cooking food in 鍋; (通常為金屬的)盤狀器皿: a `frying-pan 煎鍋
a saucepan 長柄燉鍋 * pots and pans 鍋壺盆罐. =>illus 見插圖.
(b) amount contained in this 一鍋之量
a pan of hot fat 一鍋熱脂油.
2 any of various types of bowl-shaped containers 盆狀器皿
a lavatory pan, ie its porcelain bowl 瓷便池
a `bedpan 床上便盆 * a `dustpan 簸箕.
3 either of the dishes on a pair of scales (天平的)秤盤.=>illus at scale 見scale插圖.
4 metal dish in which gravel is washed to separate it from gold or othervaluable minerals (淘沙金等的)淘盤.
5 = salt-pan (salt).6 = hard-pan (hard).
7 small cavity for gunpowder in the lock of an old type of gun (舊式槍上的)火藥池.8 (idm 習語) a flash in the pan => flash1. pan, v (-nn-)
1 [I, Ipr] ~ (for sth) wash gravel in a pan in order to find gold or other valuable minerals 用淘盤淘
prospectors panning for gold 淘金的人.
2 [Tn] (infml 口) criticize (sth) severely 嚴厲批評(某事)
The film was panned by the critics. 影片受到評論家的嚴厲批評.
3 (phr v) pan sth off/out wash (gravel) in a pan, to separate gold or other valuable minerals from it 用淘盤淘洗(含金或貴重礦物的砂礫). pan out
(a) (of gravel, a river, an area, etc) yield gold or other valuable minerals (指砂礫、 河流、 地區等)產金或其他貴重礦物.
(b) (infml 口) (of events or circumstances) develop; turn out (指事情或環境)發展, 結果
It depends how things pan out. 那得看事情結果怎樣了.
pan v (-nn-) (cinema or broadcasting 影或播)
(a) [Tn, Tn.pr]
move (a camera) to the right or left to follow a moving object or to show a wide view (為拍攝動景或全景)向右或向左移動(攝影機).
(b) [I, Ipr] (of a camera, etc) move in this way (指攝影機等)移動拍攝
The shot panned slowly across the room. 鏡頭慢慢移動拍攝房間全景.