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Aslant means not straight up and down, and not straight across, but at an angle. Light may fall aslant through a window; rain may come aslant; a board may be set aslant. It is an older, more story-book word than “at an angle” or “slanted.” You will meet it in writing more than in everyday talk. It is close to askew, but they are not the same: aslant is about the angle itself; askew is more “not in the proper straight place,” often as if something has slipped. The word comes from older English on slant — literally “on a slant.”
斜的、傾斜地
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aslantadv/əˈslɑːnt/
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archaicliteraryAt or on a slant; in a slanting or sloping direction.
- Take the Handle of it [a chisel] in your Right Hand as you did the Gouge, and claſping the Blade of it in your Left Hand, lean it ſteddy upon the Reſt, holding the Edge a little aſlant over the VVork, […]
- He Fell: The Shaft [of the arrow] that ſlightly vvas impreſs'd, / Novv from his heavy Fall vvith vveight increas'd, / Drove through his Neck, aſlant, he ſpurns the Ground; / And the Soul iſſues through the VVeazon's VVound.
aslantadj/əˈslɑːnt/
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archaicliterarySlanting, oblique.
- Near-synonym: askance
- As for the manner and faſhion of the cut [when pruning grapevines], it ought alvvaies to be aſlant, like a goats foot, that no drops of raine may ſettle and reſt thereupon, but that euery ſhovvre may ſoon ſhoot off: […]
aslantprep/əˈslɑːnt/
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archaicliteraryAcross or over in a slanting or diagonal direction.
- There is a VVillovv grovves aſlant a Brooke, / That ſhevves his hore [hoar] leaues in the glaſſie ſtreame: […]
- […] I have inſerted in Plate 14. at O, vvhere you may perceive in or near vvhat poſition the Chiſſel muſt be ſet to cut the VVork; and hovv the edge of the Chiſſel a b lying aſlant the VVork, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。