glance
要点ちらっと見る、ちらっと見ること
意味
- ちらっと見る,一目見る;(…を)ちらっと見る《+at+名》
- 〈光などが〉きらめく,きらりと光る
- (…を)ちらっと見ること,いちべつ,一目,一見《+at(into,over,through)+名》
- (光の)ひらめき,きらめき,閃(せん)光
- (弾丸など)かすめてそれること
例文
He glanced over the newspaper before turning in.
彼は寝る前にちょっと新聞に目を通した。
I could tell at a glance that she was in trouble.
彼女が困っていることが私には一目でわかった。
I glanced at the clock and knew what time it was.
ちらりと時計を見て、何時か知りました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
The verb is derived from Late Middle English glenchen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; of a person: to turn quickly aside, dodge”) [and other forms], a blend of: * Old French glacier, glachier, glaichier (“to slide; to slip”) (whence also Middle English glacen (“of a blow: to strike obliquely, glance; to glide”)), from glace (“frozen water, ice”) (from Vulgar Latin *glacia, from Latin glaciēs (“ice”), of uncertain origin, + -ier (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs); and * Old French guenchir, ganchir (“to avoid; to change direction; to elude, evade”) [and other forms], from Proto-West Germanic *wankijan (“to move aside; to stagger, sway; to wave”), ultimately from…