skirt

skirt[skə:t]

• n.
  • 裙子；衬裙
  • (衣服的)下摆
  • 裙状布罩，套罩，物体的裙状部分
  • (马鞍的)垂边
  • 挡板；(气垫船的)围裙；(坦克履带的)裙板
  • [常用复数]边缘；外围
  • [英国英语](牛肉的)碎牛肚肉；多筋牛肉
  • [俚语]女人；女子，姑娘
• vt.
  • 位于…的边缘；绕过…的边缘：

    to skirt the town

    绕着城而行

  • 沿着…的边缘；和…接界：

    to skirt a lake

    沿着湖的边缘

  • 避开，回避：

    to skirt the issue of higher taxes

    避而不谈高税收一事

  • [主澳大利亚英语]除去(羊毛)的边毛；去除(劣质毛)
• vi.
  • 沿边缘走；绕着走：

    to skirt along the lake

    沿着湖边走

  • 位于边缘：

    to skirt on the river

    位于河边

  • 绕开;避开(round):

    She skirted round us and went into the room.

    她绕过我们走进了房间。

    to skirt round the danger

    避开危险

• 短语:
  • a bit of skirt 见bit

• cdfs
• (as) bold as brass
• lost in admiration
• philomaths
• bombilate
• Himyaritic
• bitunicate ascus
• prospective employee / candidate / buyer etc
• hickory oil
• atmospheric physics
• renovascular
• Karelian Isthmus
• radioactive dating
• golden chain
• turbinado sugar
• shoresmen
• acetolysis
• a/the new kid on the block
• coinsurers
• senior school
• apikoros
• word games
• melodia
• good-heartednesses
• aphthae
• hypocleidiums
• lobe penetration
• goat antelope
• judgment of Solomon
• contangoes
• Anisotomidae
• baddish
• ward politician
• lepidopteral
• austenitics
• brassey
• nut house
• w.g
• observed gravity
• turn nuclear
• saxtuba
• handwriting reader
• decarburised
• zeg
• chronicle
• recreantly
• abelmosks
• baby's-breath
• engulfment
• doughfaces
• zills
• to-and-fros
• wish fulfilment
• macedoine
• spiderman
• gripple
• Knight of the Round Table
• sound buoy
• last-ditcher
• bodeguero
• pluck up courage
• discourage
• reticulite
• go nap
• barrier lagoon
• can read sb like a book
• circumvolves
• right along / through / around etc
• as innocent as a babe unborn
• one in a thousand
• blot out
• Papaverales
• second-class citizens
• Breit-Wigner formula
• urinal
• smarting
• Riss-Würm
• orthograde
• frontest
• be in bad taste
• Erotes
• golgothas
• draw down on sth
• tungstophosphoric acid
• DMA
• in a good way
• horsey-looking
• bittock
• solods
• magnesial
• pusher pencil
• unmannered
• disk memory
• give one's hand upon
• luminous exitance
• acanthocheilonemiasis
• abstersives
• scout on the lay
• take life
• Torquemada, Tomás de