pan out

To turn out well; be successful

结果好；成功

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

“如果我不能胜任做一名医生，我仍能够回到学?！?&b{索尔·贝洛})

go down the pan

(informal)reach a stage of abject failure or uselessness

(非正式)惨败；无用

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

社区崩溃了，医院关闭了，经济一蹶不振。

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

全景与扫描（一种缩小宽银幕电影的纵横比以适合电视机方形屏幕的技术，方法是不断地选取原图像中最有效的部分，而不仅是中间部分）