pan
英 [p?n]
美[p?n]
- n. 平底鍋；盤狀的器皿；淘盤子，金盤，秤盤
- vt. 淘金；在淺鍋中烹調（食物）；[非正式用語]嚴厲的批評
- vi. 淘金；在淘洗中收獲金子
詞組搭配
pan out
To turn out well; be successful
結果好；成功
“If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school”(&b{Saul Bellow})
“如果我不能勝任做一名醫生，我仍能夠回到學?！?&b{索爾·貝洛})
go down the pan
(informal)reach a stage of abject failure or uselessness
(非正式)慘敗；無用
communities crumble, hospitals are shut, and the economy goes down the pan.
社區崩潰了，醫院關閉了，經濟一蹶不振。
pan and scan
a technique for narrowing the aspect ratio of a widescreen film to fit the squarer shape of a television screen by continuously selecting the portion of the original picture with the most significance, rather than just the middle portion
全景與掃描（一種縮小寬銀幕電影的縱橫比以適合電視機方形屏幕的技術，方法是不斷地選取原圖像中最有效的部分，而不僅是中間部分）