pan
英 [pæn]
美[pæn]
- n. 平底锅；盘状的器皿；淘盘子，金盘，秤盘
- vt. 淘金；在浅锅中烹调（食物）；[非正式用语]严厉的批评
- vi. 淘金；在淘洗中收获金子
词组搭配
pan out
To turn out well; be successful
结果好；成功
“If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school”(&b{Saul Bellow})
“如果我不能胜任做一名医生，我仍能够回到学校”(&b{索尔·贝洛})
go down the pan
(informal)reach a stage of abject failure or uselessness
(非正式)惨败；无用
communities crumble, hospitals are shut, and the economy goes down the pan.
社区崩溃了，医院关闭了，经济一蹶不振。
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
全景与扫描（一种缩小宽银幕电影的纵横比以适合电视机方形屏幕的技术，方法是不断地选取原图像中最有效的部分，而不仅是中间部分）