Picture a spoon sliding across the surface of a soup, lifting off the fat that floats on top and never going deeper. Skim is that contact with the surface only — you take just what is on top, or you pass across it barely touching.
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原始詞典資料19 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
skimverb/skɪm/
- 1
To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
- 2
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
- 3
To hasten along with superficial attention.
- They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey.
- 4
To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- Ceilings are lined with fibrous asbestos, the internal plastering being reduced to skimming alone.
- 5
To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- skimming stones
- 6
To ricochet.
- 7
To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
- (through)
- I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
- 8
To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- to skim milk
- to skim broth
- 10
To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- to skim cream
- 11
To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
- Obviously, the longer cash sits around before being recorded, the more likely it is that a skimming fraud will occur.
- […] take this money without entering anything into the record-keeping system, thereby accomplishing a theft by skimming.
- 12
To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- 13
To become coated over.
skimadj/skɪm/
- 1
Having lowered fat content.
skimnoun/skɪm/
- 1
A cursory reading, skipping the details.
- For a first quick appreciation of the approach, we recommend a fast reading of Chapter 1, then a skim through the figures of the next two chapters — glancing at the definitions of key concepts that appear below the figures in Chapters 2 and 3.
- 2
informalSkim milk.
- Two percent milk has only a fraction less fat than whole milk, so unless you are feeding a child or someone whose diet requires whole milk, skim is best.
- 3
The act of skimming.
- Then you could jump 150 years and enjoy a skim across the Solent in Britain's remarkable Hovercraft.
- 4
That which is skimmed off.
- 5
Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
- It's a hustle, but it keeps me busy. I can take in three to three-fifty a week, more with skims.
- This potential is further increased by the ease of passing on the costs of corruption and racketeering to consumers; a skim of only one percent of a construction project can amount to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
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