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skim vt.撇去；略读；掠过；滑过vi.掠过；表面凝结；<俚>瞒报n.浮沫；略读；脱脂物 (1) 我花了一小时把这本书浏览了一遍。(2) 海鸥掠过水面。(3) 气垫船能掠过水面飞速行驶。(4) 我看到你拿了两夸托脱脂牛奶。 Cream is what you skim off the surface of milk, and if you don't like the whipped version, you might skim it from your hot chocolate. Another way to use the word skim is to mean "read quickly," like when you skim the newspaper, catching just the headlines as you search for the comics section. Skim has an Old French root, escumer, "remove scum," from escume, "scum." The "glance through a book" meaning came later, in the late 1700’s.

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英 [skɪm] 美 [skɪm] (1) It took me an hour to skim the book.(2) A seagull skims the water.(3) The hovercraft is able to skim over the water.(4) I notice you have two quarts of skim milk. To skim is to remove something from the surface of a liquid. Some cooks skim the fat off of the top of their chicken noodle soup, others skim the cream off milk to make skim (or skimmed) milk. 1[VERB 动词]撇去(液体上的漂浮物) If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove it.   [V n off/from n]  [V n with off]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。2[VERB 动词]掠过；擦过；滑过 If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it.   [V n]  [V over/across n]...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。3[VERB 动词]略读；浏览 If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly.   [V n]  [V through n]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。相关词组：skim off

英语单词	skim
英美音标	英 [skɪm] 美 [skɪm]
中文释义	vt.撇去；略读；掠过；滑过 vi.掠过；表面凝结；<俚>瞒报 n.浮沫；略读；脱脂物
英语例句	(1) It took me an hour to skim the book. (2) A seagull skims the water. (3) The hovercraft is able to skim over the water. (4) I notice you have two quarts of skim milk.
中文例句	(1) 我花了一小时把这本书浏览了一遍。 (2) 海鸥掠过水面。 (3) 气垫船能掠过水面飞速行驶。 (4) 我看到你拿了两夸托脱脂牛奶。
vocabulary简明	To skim is to remove something from the surface of a liquid. Some cooks skim the fat off of the top of their chicken noodle soup, others skim the cream off milk to make skim (or skimmed) milk.
vocabulary扩展	Cream is what you skim off the surface of milk, and if you don't like the whipped version, you might skim it from your hot chocolate. Another way to use the word skim is to mean "read quickly," like when you skim the newspaper, catching just the headlines as you search for the comics section. Skim has an Old French root, escumer, "remove scum," from escume, "scum." The "glance through a book" meaning came later, in the late 1700’s.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]撇去(液体上的漂浮物) If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove it. [V n off/from n] [V n with off] 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。 2 [VERB 动词]掠过；擦过；滑过 If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it. [V n] [V over/across n] ...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。 3 [VERB 动词]略读；浏览 If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly. [V n] [V through n] 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。相关词组： skim off

Skim [V N Surface I Verb 动词 Ming