貼著表面掠過去
同一個「只碰到表面」換成移動：不是取走什麼，而是從上面擦過去。石頭在水面彈跳也是這個畫面的一種。
skim (glide over a surface) · verb · B1
To move quickly over a surface, touching it lightly or almost not at all.
掠過；擦過
核心畫面
Picture a spoon sliding across the surface of a soup, lifting off the fat that floats on top and never going deeper. Skim is that contact with the surface only — you take just what is on top, or you pass across it barely touching.
可以想成：一支湯匙貼著湯面滑過去，把浮在上面的油撈掉，完全不往下探。skim 就是這種「只碰到表面」的動作——只取最…更多收起
可以想成：一支湯匙貼著湯面滑過去，把浮在上面的油撈掉，完全不往下探。skim 就是這種「只碰到表面」的動作——只取最上面那一層，或是幾乎不碰地掠過去。From the picture
眼睛掃過文字
把掠過的動作用在閱讀上：眼睛從文字表面滑過去，只撿主要的意思，不逐字讀。這是英文閱讀課裡的固定術語。
skim (read quickly) · verb · B1
To read something quickly so you get the main ideas, not every word.
瀏覽；略讀
Also in this word
skim (remove top layer) · verb · B1
To take fat, oil, or floating bits off the top of a liquid.
撇去
skim (card fraud) · verb · C1
To secretly copy the details from someone's credit card so they can be used illegally.
側錄（信用卡）
原始詞典資料19 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。
skimverb/skɪm/
- 1
To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
- Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, / Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
- 2
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
- Homer describes Mercury as flinging himself from the top of Olympus, and skimming the surface of the ocean.
- 3
To hasten along with superficial attention.
- They skim over a science in a very night superficial survey.
- 4
To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
- Ceilings are lined with fibrous asbestos, the internal plastering being reduced to skimming alone.
- 5
To throw an object so it bounces on water.
- skimming stones
- 6
To ricochet.
- 7
To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
- (through)
- I skimmed the newspaper over breakfast.
- 8
To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
另外 5 個記錄的用法
- 9
To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
- to skim milk
- to skim broth
- 10
To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
- to skim cream
- 11
To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
- Obviously, the longer cash sits around before being recorded, the more likely it is that a skimming fraud will occur.
- […] take this money without entering anything into the record-keeping system, thereby accomplishing a theft by skimming.
- 12
To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
- 13
To become coated over.
skimadj/skɪm/
- 1
Having lowered fat content.
skimnoun/skɪm/
- 1
A cursory reading, skipping the details.
- For a first quick appreciation of the approach, we recommend a fast reading of Chapter 1, then a skim through the figures of the next two chapters — glancing at the definitions of key concepts that appear below the figures in Chapters 2 and 3.
- 2
informalSkim milk.
- Two percent milk has only a fraction less fat than whole milk, so unless you are feeding a child or someone whose diet requires whole milk, skim is best.
- 3
The act of skimming.
- Then you could jump 150 years and enjoy a skim across the Solent in Britain's remarkable Hovercraft.
- 4
That which is skimmed off.
- 5
Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
- It's a hustle, but it keeps me busy. I can take in three to three-fifty a week, more with skims.
- This potential is further increased by the ease of passing on the costs of corruption and racketeering to consumers; a skim of only one percent of a construction project can amount to hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars.
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。