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In informal British English, to skive is to stay away from school or work when you should be there, or to slip out without permission. Students skive (or skive off) school; workers skive off work. Though actually, people also use it when someone is still “there” but hiding — a long toilet break, a quiet corner with a phone. It is not a polite or official word. A school letter would say absent without permission, or truant; a boss would say unpaid leave or misconduct. Friends say it with a grin or with , depending on who is left doing the work. Americans almost never use skive; they are more likely to say skip school, ditch class, or play hooky. There is another, rarer skive in workshops, meaning to shave leather thin. That is a different word that only happens to look the same.
翹課、曠班、偷溜（英式口語。台灣說「翹課」就對了；中國大陸較常說逃課、曠工）
組成Probably from French esquiver, “to slink away / escape,” from older French and Spanish, and further back from a Germanic root to do with being afraid. English shy and eschew are related at that deep level, even though they no longer look like skive.
原始詞典資料6 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。
skiveverb詞源 1/ˈskaɪv/
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informalTo avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
- Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
- Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door.
skivenoun詞源 1/ˈskaɪv/
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informalSomething very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
- Mr Smith's history classes are a total skive.
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informalAn act of avoiding lessons or work.
- I got the bus to school, and the driver gave me the eye, thinking I was on the skive, and I started to explain that there was something up with my head, but then I couldn't be bothered.
- Another school skive! I only realised this when my dentist's receptionist told me to expect a fair wait till I could be seen.
skivenoun詞源 2/ˈskaɪv/
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A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
- This accident sometimes occasions a flaw in the diamond, and always damages the skive, by tearing up its surface.
- When the cut diamond is fixed in the dop, and that is adjusted in the tongs, the stone is placed upon the skive, which, being set in motion, if the diamond be examined in the course of from ten to fifteen minutes time, the facet will appear to have lost a part of the gray colour it had obtained from the process of cutting, and a brilliant lustre or polish will begin to appear, which is solely produced from the imbedded powder with which the surface of the skive is charged.
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An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
- There would be no need for medial heel skive and the heel cup can be of normal depth.
- The angle and the depth of skives should be specified.
skiveverb詞源 2/ˈskaɪv/
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To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.
- In the leather industry skive has another connotation, concerning splitting the skin perpendicularly to its thickness into thin layers. Imagine now being able to skive at the nanoscale.
- Following the photo above from top to bottom, round off each end and skive the flesh side then using an old chisel the same width of the lace, cut a hole – open this out and thread each lace into the opposing hole – pull tight gently and flatten with a rubber hammer or other item, but gently.
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。