• n. 平底鍋；盤狀的器皿；淘盤子，金盤，秤盤
• vt. 淘金；在淺鍋中烹調(diào)（食物）；[非正式用語]嚴厲的批評
• vi. 淘金；在淘洗中收獲金子

來自古英語panne,鍋，盤，可能來自PIE*pete,展開，詞源同feather,patella.后引申動詞詞義淘金，即用鍋洗砂子淘金，并用于俚語嚴厲批評。字母t脫落，比較fain,來自古英語fagen.

來自希臘語Pan,古希臘神話人頭羊角羊身的山林和畜牧之神，可能來自pan,全部的，所有的， 即自然的化身。

pan

pan: [OE] Pan is a general West Germanic word, with relatives in German (pfanne) and Dutch (pan), and also, by borrowing, in Swedish (panna) and Danish (pande). It may have been borrowed into Germanic from Latin patina ‘dish’ (source of English paten [13] and patina [18]), which itself went back to Greek patánē ‘plate, dish’.

The verbal use pan out ‘turn out, succeed’ is an allusion to the getting of a result when ‘panning’ for gold – washing gold-bearing gravel, silt, etc in a shallow pan to separate out the metal. (Pan ‘move a camera’ [20], incidentally, is a different word altogether. It is an abbreviation of panorama.)
=> paten, patina; panorama

pan (n.)

Old English panne, earlier ponne (Mercian) "pan," from Proto-Germanic *panna "pan" (cognates: Old Norse panna, Old Frisian panne, Middle Dutch panne, Dutch pan, Old Low German panna, Old High German phanna, German pfanne), probably an early borrowing (4c. or 5c.) from Vulgar Latin *patna, from Latin patina "shallow pan, dish, stewpan," from Greek patane "plate, dish," from PIE *pet-ano-, from root *pete- "to spread" (see pace (n.)). Irish panna probably is from English, and Lithuanian pana is from German.

Used of pan-shaped parts of mechanical apparatus from c. 1590; hence flash in the pan, a figurative use from early firearms, where a pan held the priming (and the gunpowder might "flash," but no shot ensue). To go out of the (frying) pan into the fire is first found in Spenser (1596).

pan (v.2)

"follow with a camera," 1913 shortening of panoramic in panoramic camera (1878). Meaning "to swing from one object to another in a scene" is from 1931. Related: Panned; panning.

Pan

Arcadian shepherd god with upper body of a man and horns and lower part like a goat, late 14c., a god of the woods and fields, from Latin, from Greek Pan. Klein says perhaps cognate with Sanskrit pusan, a Vedic god, guardian and multiplier of cattle and other human possessions, literally "nourisher." Similarity to pan "all" (see pan-) led to his being regarded as a personification of nature. Pan-pipe, upon which he supposedly played, is attested from 1820.

pan (v.1)

"to wash gravel or sand in a pan in search of gold," 1839, from pan (n.); thus to pan out "turn out, succeed" (1868) is a figurative use of this (literal sense from 1849). The meaning "criticize severely" is from 1911, probably from the notion in contemporary slang expressions such as on the pan "under reprimand or criticism" (1923). Related: Panned; panning.

1. Put a pan of salted water on to boil.

將一鍋鹽水放上去煮。

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2. Grate a tablespoonful of fresh ginger into a pan.

磨碎一湯匙鮮姜，放入平底鍋。

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3. Empty the contents of the pan into the sieve.

將鍋里的東西倒到篩子上。

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4. Put the onions in the pan and cook until lightly browned.

將洋蔥放入平底鍋內(nèi)，炒至略呈棕色。

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5. If you are using the same pan, clean it out.

如果還用同一個平底鍋，要把它清理干凈。

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