Skim
[skɪm]
解释:
(noun.) reading or glancing through quickly.
(noun.) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; 'there was a thin skim of oil on the water'.
(verb.) read superficially.
(verb.) remove from the surface; 'skim cream from the surface of milk'.
(verb.) coat (a liquid) with a layer.
(verb.) cause to skip over a surface; 'Skip a stone across the pond'.
(adj.) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; 'yogurt made with skim milk'; 'she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter' .
约翰娜编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
(v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
(v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
(v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
(v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
(v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
(v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
(a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
伊莱恩整理
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Pass lightly or superficially.
丹尼斯校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Brush, glide, graze, touch
ANT:Enter, penetrate
黛安娜校对
解释:
v.t. to clear off scum: to take off by skimming: to brush the surface of lightly.—v.i. to pass over lightly: to glide along near the surface: to become coated over:—pr.p. skim′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. skimmed.—n. the act of skimming: what is skimmed off.—ns. Skim′mer a utensil for skimming milk: a bird that skims the water; Skim′-milk skimmed milk: milk from which the cream has been skimmed; Skim′ming the act of taking off that which floats on the surface of a liquid as cream: that which is taken off scum.—adv. Skim′mingly by skimming along the surface.
霍雷肖整理
例句:
- Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- I wanted to be the one to tell you the grand surprise, and have 'first skim' as we used to say when we squabbled about the cream. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- She did not skim over it, but walked down it, and guided herself by the banisters on account of her candle having died out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- The cream which rises will keep, and the skim-milk will remain sweet for several weeks; this I have tried in the dairy at Beaumont College. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Here aloft, the companions of the swift-winged birds, we skim through the unresisting element, fleetly and fearlessly. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- But ere the words had passed his lips she was across the snowy road, rather skimming than wading the drifts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- During our stay at Naples, we often returned to this cave, sometimes alone, skimming the sun-lit sea, and each time added to our store. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Then the airship began to descend, taking the circles easily, and finally skimming down to the ground. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- They have a peculiar and mysterious power of skimming out of rooms, which other mortals possess not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The ancient methods of simply melting and skimming the bullion dross have been superseded. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- He passed me at speed, hardly feeling the earth he skimmed, and seeing nothing on either hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Off she skimmed, bearing the cherub along, nor ever stopped, nor suffered him to stop, until she had pulled at the bell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The crucible is now covered and the fusion kept up for about thirty-five minutes, when the dross is skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The coffee was gray with milk, and I skimmed the milk scum off the top with a piece of bread. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- In the centrifugal skimmer the milk is continuously poured in through a funnel, and the cream runs out continuously through one spout, and the skimmed milk at the other. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- I have just skimmed it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- When she was serene she skimmed like a swallow, and that is how she was moving now. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Mercury, swift-responsive, appears, receives instructions whom to produce, skims away, produces the aforesaid, and departs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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