| 单词 | pan out |
| 释义 | pan out (once / 10965 pages) 1v 2v If you want something to pan out, you hope it will work out or succeed. You might have to wait a week after an interview to find out if a new job will pan out. When you take a chance on something, you hope it will pan out. You might wonder if your cousin's business ideas will pan out or doubt that your friend's relationship with her boyfriend will pan out. The phrase pan out comes from prospectors whose method of extracting gold from streams was called "panning." Using a flat pan, they would swirl water and gravel, and any gold would sink to the bottom. WORD FAMILYpan out: panned out, panning out, pans out USAGE EXAMPLESIf this is indeed how things pan out, I know one scholar, a distinguished professor of international relations, who won’t be in the least surprised. The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) Readers learned that they should load up on gold and silver to survive hyperinflation—advice that panned out for a few years. Wall Street Journal(Nov 25, 2016) “I certainly hope nothing like that would pan out,” she said in an interview. New York Times(Nov 23, 2016) 1 v be a success 2The idea panned out Hyper bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed, win attain success or reach a desired goal v wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals Syn|Hyper pan, pan off wash separate dirt or gravel from (precious minerals) |
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