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vi. (不及物動詞 intransitive verb)

          1.    眯著眼看;斜著眼看[(+at/through)]
                      He squinted through the telescope.
                      他眯起眼透過望遠鏡看。
          2.    患斜視[W]
          3.    傾向[(+to/towards)]
          4.    偏離方向,越軌

vt. (及物動詞 transitive verb)

          1.    眯起(眼)
          2.    使斜視

n. (名詞 noun)[C]

          1.    眯眼看;斜眼看[S1][(+at)]
          2.    【口】一瞥;看[S1][(+at)]
                      Come here till I get a good squint at you.
                      過來讓我好好看看你。
          3.    斜眼[S1]
          4.    傾向;偏向[(+to/towards)]

a. (形容詞 adjective)

          1.    斜視的
          2.    斜眼的

 
Ed Harris is not a control freak. Got that?

When Ed Harris is talking to you, even when he's seated just inches away across a café table, he focuses on some point in the not-so-near distance. 

It's slightly unnerving; more alarming, every once in a while—bang—he looks right at you, blue eyes squinting with an eerie intensity. 

His body tenses a bit, the lines on his forehead seem to deepen, and then, just as suddenly, the [storm] passes and the placid, chilly surface returns.

placid
–adjective 
pleasantly calm 
or 
peaceful; unruffled; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed: placid [waters].  


　
The best joke of this movie, though, is that it function[s] most happily at its most placid. Some of the early sequences, where McDonagh's dialogue is suffused [with] his debt to Beckett, are warmed by an idle suspense:

"We've got to stay here for two weeks, until he rings."
"What if he doesn’t ring?"


strident strident [insects] [hinges], a strident tone in his [writings] 
screech the screech of [owls] [brakes], disagreeable, lack of dignity
queasy 
squeamish
squeal 
He squealed [on] his mates.
squish
The soaking wet [sneakers] squished as he walked.
the [squish] of footsteps on wet leaves. 
grate
His constant chatter grates [on] my nerves.  
to grate on the [ear].  
to grate a [carrot]. 
to grate one's [teeth]. with people grating tulip bulbs to make soup. 
Raucous