skim
v. 浏览; 撇去; 掠过; 偷盗
If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove it.
Rough seas today prevented specially equipped ships from skimming oil off the water's surface...
今天海面上风浪很大,那些配有专门设备的船只无法展开清除海面浮油的工作。
Skim off the fat.
将油脂撇去。
If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it.
...seagulls skimming the waves...
掠过浪尖的海鸥
The little boat was skimming across the sunlit surface of the bay.
一叶小舟正轻轻掠过阳光下的海湾。
If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly.
He skimmed the pages quickly, then read them again more carefully...
他先快速地浏览页面,然后再细细阅读。
I only had time to skim through the script before I flew over here.
在坐飞机来这儿之前,我只来得及将手稿匆匆浏览了一遍。
1. a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid;
2. reading or glancing through quickly
1. travel on the surface of water
2. move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
3. examine hastily;
4. cause to skip over a surface;
5. coat (a liquid) with a layer
6. remove from the surface;
7. read superficially
1. used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed;
read, devour, scan, skim
这些动词均有"读,阅读"之意。
I only skim the headlines of the newspaper every morning.
每天早上我只是浏览一下报纸的大标题.
On summer evenings, dragonflies are seen skim over the river.
夏天傍晚时分, 蜻蜓在河面上飞来飞去.
Does private education skim off all the best students from the state system?
私立学校是不是会把公立学校最好的学生都挖走?
You're required to manoeuvre straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point.
你们必须低飞到这个狭沟,然后沿着狭沟而行,直到这一点.
So I began to skim the remaining chapters, and noticed that they weren't much help either.
所以,我开始放弃其余的章节, 并注意到他们没有多少帮助的.