If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove it.
例句
Rough seas today prevented specially equipped ships from skimming oil off the water's surface...今天海面上風(fēng)浪很大，那些配有專門設(shè)備的船只無法展開清除海面浮油的工作。Skim off the fat.將油脂撇去。
VERB
掠過;擦過;滑過
If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it.
例句
...seagulls skimming the waves...掠過浪尖的海鷗The little boat was skimming across the sunlit surface of the bay.一葉小舟正輕輕掠過陽光下的海灣。
VERB
略讀;瀏覽
If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly.
例句
He skimmed the pages quickly, then read them again more carefully...他先快速地瀏覽頁面，然后再細(xì)細(xì)閱讀。I only had time to skim through the script before I flew over here.在坐飛機(jī)來這兒之前，我只來得及將手稿匆匆瀏覽了一遍。