skimming

柯林斯詞典

1. V-T If you skim something from the surface of a liquid, you remove it. 撇去 (液躰表麪的浮物)
Rough seas today prevented specially equipped ships from skimming oil off the water's surface. 今天洶湧的海浪使特別裝備的船衹無法撇去浮在水麪上的石油。
2. V-T/V-I If something skims a surface, it moves quickly along just above it. 掠過
...seagulls skimming the waves. …掠過海浪的海鷗。
3. V-T/V-I If you skim a piece of writing, you read through it quickly. 略讀; 瀏覽
He skimmed the pages quickly, then read them again more carefully. 他很快瀏覽了幾頁，然後又仔細(xì)地讀了一遍。