核心畫面
You can picture one long, thin, narrow strip of wood or plastic, fixed under a boot. Because it is long and flat, the weight spreads out and the thing on top does not sink into the snow — it slides across the surface instead. Everything the word does grows from that one strip that turns sinking into sliding.
可以想成一條又長又窄又薄的木板或塑膠板，固定在鞋底下面。因為它長而平，重量被攤開，上面的東西就不會陷進雪裡，而是貼著…更多收起
可以想成一條又長又窄又薄的木板或塑膠板，固定在鞋底下面。因為它長而平，重量被攤開，上面的東西就不會陷進雪裡，而是貼著表面往前滑。這個字的所有用法都從這條板子長出來：它把「陷下去」變成「滑過去」。所以有時它掛在人腳上，有時裝在小型車輛或小飛機底下，道理完全一樣。原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
skinoun/skiː/
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One of a pair of long flat runners designed for gliding over snow or water.
- Disaster at the newly opened ski resort where hard-driving tycoon Hudson is determined to double his not insubstantial investment while his ex-wife Mia is making whoopee with one of the locals championing ecology.
- We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well.
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aeronauticsaerospaceaviationOne of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.
- 3
A trip made by skiing.
- to go for a ski
skiverb/skiː/
- 1
To move on skis.
- Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.
- We skied back the way we had come for about thirty minutes when I saw her. Mary was hanging upside down by the tips of her skies from a tree well.
- 2
To travel over (a slope, etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport).
- We spent the winter holidays skiing the Alps
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。