广播电视英语短句 第 170 课：淘金热-6

A business, a discovery, a simple event pans out well if it is successful. 如果一笔生意，一项发现，一件简单的事件成功了，都可以说‘It panned out wel｛进展顺利｝'。

Unhappily, sometimes things do not pan out. 遗憾的是有时候不是所用的事情都能进展的很顺利。

In recent years, the word pan has taken on another meaning. 在近来的这些年，词语pan又有了另一种意思。

Today, it also means to criticize. How it got this meaning is hard to discover. 今天，它也可以意味着批判.怎样得来的这一层意思现在已经很难了解到。

But the job of a critic is to sometimes pan the work of a writer, artist or singer. 而一个评论家工作则是时而对一些作家、艺术家或者是歌手的作品进行批判。