skate
n
1
(a) (also `ice-skate) either of a pair of boots with steel blades fixed to the soles so that the wearer can glide smoothly over ice 溜冰鞋.
(b) one of these blades 冰刀.
2 = roller-skate (roller).
3 (idm 習語) get/put one's `skates on (infml 口) hurry up 趕快
Get your skates on or you'll miss the bus. 快點兒, 不然你就趕不上公共汽車了. skate, v [I, Ipr, Ip, Tn]
1 move on skates; perform (sth) while moving in this way 溜冰; 溜冰表演(某動作)
Can you skate? 你會滑冰嗎?
skate along, past, over, etc (sth) 溜冰沿著、 經(jīng)過、 越過...(某物)
skate a figure of eight 溜8字形.
2 (idm 習語) be skating on thin `ice talk about or do sth that can easily cause disagreement, protest or other trouble 談論或做易引起分歧、 反對意見或其他麻煩的事
We could ignore him and go direct to the chairman, but we'd be skating on very thin ice. 我們可以不理會他而直接去找主席, 但那樣做我們就如履?quot;?
3 (phr v) skate over/round sth not deal with sth directly 間接處理某事物; 不直接觸及某事物
skate over a difficulty, a delicate issue 對一困難、 敏感問題一帶而過
She skated round the likely cost of the plan. 她婉轉(zhuǎn)地提到這項計畫可能需要的費用.
skate n (pl unchanged or ~s 復數(shù)或不變或作 skates) large flat long-tailed fish that lives in the sea and is eaten as food 鰩(體大扁平、 尾長的海魚, 可食).