skate
[skeɪt] noun
BOOT 靴子
ADVANCED countable (plural skates)
■a special boot with a thin metal bar fixed to the bottom that you wear to move quickly on ice, or a boot with four small wheels fixed to the bottom so that you can move over a hard surface 溜冰鞋；滑冰鞋•a pair of ice skates一双溜冰鞋 •a pair of roller skates一双四轮溜冰鞋
[skeɪt] noun
FISH 鱼
countable or uncountable (plural skate or skates)
■a large flat sea fish, which can be eaten as food 鳐鱼（一种扁体海鱼，可食用）
[skeɪt] noun
get/put your skates on UK informal
■used when you want to tell someone to hurry up 快点，把握时间•Get your skates on, or we'll be late.快点，否则我们会迟到的。
[skeɪt] verb intransitive + adverb or preposition transitive
ADVANCED
■to move, or make a particular movement on a surface, using skates 滑冰，溜冰•The ice on the river is thick enough to skate on/across/over.河上的冰够厚，可以在上面滑冰。 •Shall we go skating tomorrow?我们明天去滑冰好吗？
[skeɪt] verb intransitive + adverb or preposition transitive
be skating on thin ice
■to be doing something risky or dangerous 如履薄冰；冒险•He's skating on thin ice by lying to the police.他向警方撒谎真是冒险之举。
[skeɪt] verb intransitive + adverb or preposition transitive
Phrasal Verbs skate over/round/around sth
■to avoid dealing completely with something or to fail to pay enough attention to it 对…一带而过；对…轻描淡写•Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates round the problem, it doesn't solve it.只在天冷的时候才为无家可归者提供住处，这只是治标不治本的做法，并不能真正解决问题。 •I didn't understand what the teacher said about prepositions, because she only skated over it.我不明白老师所讲的关于介词的内容，因为她只是稍微带过讲了一下。 |