skim
v. 瀏覽; 撇去; 掠過; 偷盜
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...
今天海面上風浪很大,那些配有專門裝置的船隻無法展開清除海面浮油的工作。
Skim off the fat.
將油脂撇去。
If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it.
...seagulls skimming the waves...
掠過浪尖的海鷗
The little boat was skimming across the sunlit surface of the bay.
一葉小舟正輕輕掠過陽光下的海灣。
If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly.
He skimmed the pages quickly, then read them again more carefully...
他先快速地瀏覽頁面,然後再細細閱讀。
I only had time to skim through the script before I flew over here.
在坐飛機來這兒之前,我只來得及將手稿匆匆瀏覽了一遍。
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
這些動詞均有"讀,閱讀"之意。
I only skim the headlines of the newspaper every morning.
每天早上我只是瀏覽一下報紙的大標題.
On summer evenings, dragonflies are seen skim over the river.
夏天傍晚時分, 蜻蜓在河面上飛來飛去.
Does private education skim off all the best students from the state system?
私立學校是不是會把公立學校最好的學生都挖走?
You're required to manoeuvre straight down this trench and skim the surface to this point.
你們必須低飛到這個狹溝,然後沿著狹溝而行,直到這一點.
So I began to skim the remaining chapters, and noticed that they weren't much help either.
所以,我開始放棄其餘的章節, 並注意到他們沒有多少幫助的.