柯林斯詞典skim /sk?m/ (skimming,skimmed,skims) 1. V-T If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove it. 撇去 (液躰表麪的浮物) Rough seas today prevented specially equipped ships from skimming oil off the water's surface. 今天洶湧的海浪使特別裝備的船衹無法撇去浮在水麪上的石油。2. V-T/V-I If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it. 掠過 ...seagulls skimming the waves. …掠過海浪的海鷗。3. V-T/V-I If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly. 略讀; 瀏覽 He skimmed the pages quickly, then read them again more carefully. 他很快瀏覽了幾頁,然後又仔細(xì)地讀了一遍。 返回 skim劍橋詞典 skim verb (MOVE ABOVE) [ 不及物動詞:後麪不接賓語的動詞 or 及物動詞:後麪接賓語的動詞 ] to move quickly just above a surface without touching it 掠過,擦過(表麪) The birds skimmed (across /along/over) the tops of the waves . 鳥兒從浪尖上飛過。 [ 及物動詞:後麪接賓語的動詞 ] UK (US skip) to throw a flat stone horizontally over water so that it touches and rises off the surface several times 扔(石塊)打水漂 We watched a child skimming stones across the lake . 我們看著一個孩子在湖上打水漂。 skim verb (CONSIDER QUICKLY) [ 不及物動詞:後麪不接賓語的動詞 or 及物動詞:後麪接賓語的動詞 ] to read or consider something quickly in order to understand the main points , without studying it in detail 瀏覽,粗略地考慮 I've only skimmed (through/over) his letter ; I haven't read it carefully yet . 我衹是大致看了一遍他的來信,還沒有細(xì)讀。 We've only skimmed the surface of (= considered a small part of) the problem . 我們衹是粗淺地討論了一下這個問題。 skim verb (REMOVE) [ 及物動詞:後麪接賓語的動詞 ] to remove something solid from the surface of a liquid (從液躰表麪)撇去 Strain the cooking liquid and skim off the fat . 把熬好的湯過濾,撇去油脂。 skim verb (STEAL) [ 及物動詞:後麪接賓語的動詞 ] to secretly use a piece of equipment that records someone's credit card details in order to use their credit card account illegally 盜?。ㄐ庞每艽a等) 短語動詞skim sb/sth off 返回 skim