pan out

To turn out well; be successful

結(jié)果好；成功

“If I don't pan out as an actor I can still go back to school”(&b{Saul Bellow})

“如果我不能勝任做一名醫(yī)生，我仍能夠回到學(xué)校”(&b{索爾·貝洛})

go down the pan

(informal)reach a stage of abject failure or uselessness

(非正式)慘敗；無用

communities crumble, hospitals are shut, and the economy goes down the pan.

社區(qū)崩潰了，醫(yī)院關(guān)閉了，經(jīng)濟一蹶不振。

pan and scan

a technique for narrowing the aspect ratio of a widescreen film to fit the squarer shape of a television screen by continuously selecting the portion of the original picture with the most significance, rather than just the middle portion

全景與掃描（一種縮小寬銀幕電影的縱橫比以適合電視機方形屏幕的技術(shù)，方法是不斷地選取原圖像中最有效的部分，而不僅是中間部分）