- a sloping position倾斜；歪斜；斜线；斜面
- Her chin took on a stubborn slant.她的下巴固执地歪着 。
- at a slant The sofa faced the fire at a slant.沙发斜对着壁炉。🔊🔊
- They held their spears at a slant.他们斜持着长矛。
- on the slant Cut the flower stems on the slant.把花茎斜着切断。🔊🔊
Oxford Collocations DictionaryprepositionSee full entry - slant (on something/somebody) a way of thinking about something, especially one that shows support for a particular opinion or point of view（有倾向性的）观点，态度
- She put a new slant on the play.她对那出戏提出了一种新的见解。🔊🔊
- Her book looks at his writings from a feminist slant.她的书从女权主义者的角度看他的著作。
Extra Examples- He puts his own particular slant on everything.他对任何事都加入自己的那种看法。
- That's a different slant on the causes of the First World War.那是对于第一次世界大战起因的不同看法。
- The story gives a new slant to his character.这个故事从新的角度描绘了他的性格。
- The story has a definite liberal slant to it.这则报道有明显的自由主义倾向。
- an article with a right-wing slant带有右翼观点的文章
- the overall slant of newspaper coverage of the campaign报界对这次活动报道的总体态度
Topics Opinion and argumentc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + slantpreposition- with a…slant
- slant on
- slant to
- …
phrases- a/somebody’s slant on things
See full entry Word Originlate Middle English: variant of dialect slent, of Scandinavian origin, probably influenced by aslant.