skate

skate¹
noun

an ice skate or roller skate
冰鞋；旱冰鞋
■short for skateboard
skateboard 的简称
■a device, typically with wheels on the underside, used to move a heavy or unwieldy object
（载笨重物的）滑板车

verb
[no obj.]

move on ice skates or roller skates in a gliding fashion
滑冰；溜冰
the boys were skating on the ice.
男孩子们在冰上溜冰。
■[with obj.]perform (a specified figure) on skates
滑出，溜出（花样）
double-eight figures skated entirely on one foot.
双八字形溜冰完全靠一只脚滑动。
■ride on a skateboard
踩滑板
■(skate over/round/around)(figurative)pass over or refer only fleetingly to (a subject or problem)
(喻)一带而过，略微触及（主题，问题）
she seemed to skate over the next part of her story.
她似乎对她故事的下一部分一带而过。
■(skate through)(figurative)make quick and easy progress through
(喻)一蹴而就
he admits he had expected to skate through the system.
他承认他一直期望通过这个系统轻松取得进展。

常用词组
get one's skates on

(Brit. informal)make haste; hurry up
(英，非正式)赶紧；快点

派生
skater
noun
语源

mid 17th cent. (originally as the plural scates): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse 'stilt'

skate²
(复同单，或 skates)

a typically large marine fish of the ray family with a cartilaginous skeleton and a flattened diamond-shaped body
鳐
Family Rajidae: numerous species, in particular the commercially valuable Raja batis
鳐科：数种，尤指有商业价值的铧子鱼
■[mass noun]the flesh of a skate or thornback used as food
（用做食物的）鳐肉

语源

Middle English: from Old Norse skata

skate³
noun

(S. African informal)an uncouth and disreputable white man
(南非，非正式)声名狼藉的粗鲁白人

语源

1970s: of unknown origin

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