skate
/skeɪt; sket/ n
1
(a) (also `ice-skate) either of a pair of boots with steel blades fixed to the soles so that the wearer can glide smoothly over ice 溜冰鞋.
(b) one of these blades 冰刀.
2 = roller-skate (roller).
3 (idm 习语) get/put one's `skates on (infml 口) hurry up 赶快
Get your skates on or you'll miss the bus. 快点儿, 不然你就赶不上公共汽车了. skate, v [I, Ipr, Ip, Tn]
1 move on skates; perform (sth) while moving in this way 溜冰; 溜冰表演（某动作）
Can you skate? 你会滑冰吗?
skate along, past, over, etc (sth) 溜冰沿著、 经过、 越过...（某物）
skate a figure of eight 溜8字形.
2 (idm 习语) be skating on thin `ice talk about or do sth that can easily cause disagreement, protest or other trouble 谈论或做易引起分歧、 反对意见或其他麻烦的事
We could ignore him and go direct to the chairman, but we'd be skating on very thin ice. 我们可以不理会他而直接去找主席, 但那样做我们就如履薄冰了.
3 (phr v) skate over/round sth not deal with sth directly 间接处理某事物; 不直接触及某事物
skate over a difficulty, a delicate issue 对一困难、 敏感问题一带而过
She skated round the likely cost of the plan. 她婉转地提到这项计画可能需要的费用.
skate / skeɪt; sket/ n (pl unchanged or ~s 复数或不变或作 skates) large flat long-tailed fish that lives in the sea and is eaten as food 鳐（体大扁平、 尾长的海鱼, 可食）.