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Here, skimming is a crime. A thief hides a small extra machine — a skimmer — on a card reader, such as an ATM slot or a shop's card machine. When you use your credit card or debit card, that extra piece copies the private details from the card. Later the thief steals money or makes a fake card. Banks and police warn people to look for odd plastic parts on the machine and to cover the . Though actually, skim / skimming has other everyday uses (reading a page fast; taking fat off soup), but this entry is the stealing-from-cards sense.
信用卡側錄
原始詞典資料7 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。
skimmingnoun
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Something skimmed from a surface etc.
- aluminium skimmings
- sorghum syrup skimmings
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A motion or action that skims.
- I was forced, too, to wonder if my previous world-views had not been too pallid, too superficial, and altogether too 'rational' — mere skimmings or skatings on the surface of reality[…]
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The sport of skimboarding.
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The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。