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verbskipping, skipped, skips skɪpskɪp 1no object, with adverbial of direction Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce. 轻快地蹦跳 she began to skip down the path 她开始沿着小路蹦跳。 Example sentencesExamples - She skipped into the kitchen and took one chicken from the spit.
- So I merrily skipped off to biology, thinking that there was absolutely nothing that could go wrong.
- I yell at the frisky types skipping along the deep gold sand.
- Carlie shouted, and she jumped and skipped around the man in girlhood glee.
- The leaves provide shelter or canopy and after a few days the little creatures find their feet and learn to skip and jump.
- "Ok " HiKari said happily skipping out and grabbing her backpack.
- Clive Tyldesley growls randomly as Davids skips past a defender.
- He gestured towards a small antelope skipping along parallel to us.
- She nodded and he nodded to the girl who skipped down the hall.
- When she looked up she saw Molly giggling and skipping down the hallway.
- Trailed by Sara, he skipped down the stairs and cautiously opened the door.
- She skipped down the hall, pulling on her pants at the same time.
- Kati whistled happily as she skipped down the sidewalk, walking her imaginary dog.
- He skipped down the sidewalk and opened the door to his mom's car.
- Kit practically skipped up the stairs, causing Alan to smile softly to himself.
- You know this is bull because you just saw Lisa skipping down the hallway.
- She blew a very flamboyant kiss his way, and she saw him blush before she practically skipped off.
- The woman skipped down the steps until she was beside the two.
- Mr Black bounced in, skipping like a four-year-old being taken to a party.
- In a rush of sudden glee, he began to skip down the sidewalk.
Synonyms caper, prance, trip, dance, bound, jump, leap, spring, hop, bounce, gambol, frisk, romp, cavort, bob rare curvet 2British no object Jump over a rope which is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise. 跳绳 training was centred on running and skipping Example sentencesExamples - Twenty minutes of skipping is hard work, so I like to intersperse skipping with endurance exercises.
- They skipped through hurried ropes without missing a beat while entering into little spaces as the ropes took different positions and angles.
- Except for the rope skipping, all exercises are the same, so read the form tips in the intermediate workout.
- Good exercises include running, skipping, aerobics, tennis, weight-training and brisk walking.
- Other good bone-building exercises are skipping, aerobics and brisk walking.
- Other traditional games such as skipping and marbles are also being brought back in other primary schools.
- Begin each lifting session with a 5 to 10 minute warm-up session by rope skipping.
- 2.1North American with object Jump over (a rope that is being turned)
the younger girls had been skipping rope Example sentencesExamples - It takes only three girls to skip rope or two to play house, while more boys are needed for team sports such as football.
- She couldn't skip rope because it wasn't ladylike.
- One girl executes cool maneuvers on her own; but she is also skipping a large rope held by two pairs of pals, one stacked on the other.
- The people in this school can't skip a rope even if it's lying on the floor.
- I can't skip rope worth a damn, so this is one of the first things they're way better at than I am.
- The world's elite shadow boxed or skipped rope right next to them.
- I had to pretend not to know how to skip rope when, in real life, I was quite good at it.
- In training for the fight, Liston had skipped rope interminably to Coleman Hawkins's ‘Night Train’.
- 2.2with object Jump lightly over.
轻松跳过 the children used to skip the puddles 孩子们过去常轻松跳过水坑。 Example sentencesExamples - Of course they must be fit and able to run and skip a tackle but all that stands for nothing if they don't know what to do with ball.
- He skipped past two tackles to race into the area, but was foiled crucially at the last moment by Paddy Martin, the big Kilglass No.4.
3with object Omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following) 略过，跳过（一本书的部分章节或一连续过程中的某个阶段） the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in 录像机的手工操作装置使得观看者可以跳过不感兴趣的部分。 Example sentencesExamples - Some of the details presented of Jerry's career are skipped over.
- Adult Andrew Drury put in a near perfect performance that enabled him to jump a grade by skipping the yellow belt altogether and moving up to orange belt.
- I could have sworn my heart just skipped a beat.
- Of course we skip right to the Outcome, which is kind of ambiguous.
- I was inhaling chapters and barely holding myself back from skipping to the end.
- Christians may forgive, but this does not mean that whatever punishment is due to an evil doer must be skipped over.
- I got out my calculator and my math book and skipped over a song on my CD.
- When you felt your throat dry and a pit in your stomach, you had probably just skipped a meal.
- My heart practically skipped a beat and a wide grin spread across my face.
- If you're not terribly interested, then skip ahead past the italics.
- I picked up another one, and my heart almost skipped a beat.
- Be aware that those who connect through cable or DSL also skip the introduction, but not as often.
- Then skip ahead to tomorrow, friend, because today is the first day of the 58th Cannes Film Festival.
- I'm not giving away a lot of plot details, but if you're still playing the game I'd skip reading the next bit.
- Poses may be repeated or skipped, but they should be done in the order given.
- In fact, he nearly skipped the whole book, but for two or three pages at the end.
- As with television, 45 % of online consumers would like to skip commercials easily.
- I'll skip right to the next interesting part; when my mom came home.
- Let's skip straight to the end, shall we?
- On the third ring, he answered and I skipped the greetings and immediately jumped to ‘Where are you?’
Synonyms omit, leave out, miss out, dispense with, do without, pass over, bypass, skim over, steer clear of, disregard, ignore informal give something a miss - 3.1no object Move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another.
无序地急速转换 Marian skipped half-heartedly through the book 玛丽安心不在焉地翻阅完了这本书。 Example sentencesExamples - Today's post could be accused of being without focus and skipping from one subject to the next.
- Thus, what you get for your hard-earned then is an all too brief account, with highlights that skip too quickly from one sport to the next.
- They had skipped from subject to subject, from music, to movies, to classes, to friends and family.
- But even as he skips over subjects and themes, Kureishi has always returned to his own life for inspiration.
- I was sure that he would act like most other boys and skip away from the deep subjects.
- The verses are a number of independent statements that skip through different subjects.
- Letters that list complaints or that skip from one subject to another are often rejected or heavily edited.
Synonyms glance at, have a quick look at, flick through, flip through, leaf through, scan, run one's eye over
4with object Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss. 不参加；不合适处理；错过 I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother 我想逃英语课，去看我妈妈。 try not to skip breakfast 尽量不要不吃早餐。 Example sentencesExamples - So the family members used to eat in rotations, those who had lunch skipped the dinner and vice versa.
- If she keeps skipping meals, confide in your mom or a school counselor.
- After all, some of them had to have skipped class to attend the sit-in.
- But with all of the food you guys provide us here, it's really no big deal to skip a meal or two.
- Teams of officers are hunting them after they skipped bail and failed to attend court.
- For any other parents out there reading this, I recommend skipping the above negotiation and waiting until they fall asleep.
- True, I was skipping first hour and standing right in the middle of the west wing hallway, but it was alright.
- Many people skip the traditional breakfast and lunch.
- ‘Children who skip breakfast can find it difficult to concentrate in class,’ she said.
- Skipping breakfast was easy: I just asked Wry to cover for me.
- Even worse, skipping breakfast can lead to some diseases.
- He'd been known to skip lectures and just attend tutes when he was a University student.
- The scheme involves pursuing those who skip bail and fail to turn up to a hearing after being released on bail.
- This close observation of deceit caused her to skip her turn at jumprope.
- Your mother may have been wrong: skipping meals may be good for you.
- As Train 20 passed into Alabama we skipped the first call for lunch and snacked in the cafe-lounge.
- Whatever you do, don't skip breakfast - even if your stomach is in knots.
- She would have never skipped a class or snuck out at night for anyone.
- The next day I discovered that the ripple of excitement was apprehension for many people; namely those who had skipped work to attend.
- I was almost late for the bus, and I had to skip breakfast.
Synonyms fail to attend, play truant from, miss, absent oneself from, take French leave from North American cut British informal skive off, wag North American informal play hookey from, goof off Australian/New Zealand informal play the wag from - 4.1skip itinformal no object Abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity.
〈非正式〉放弃（任务、谈话或活动） after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it 我们的行程几经曲折，我们几乎决定放弃了。 Example sentencesExamples - And this just kind of wipes out Congress' intent in law and just skips it.
- You can skip it and just take my word that it is extreme.
- I wasn't going to skip it after going through the whole semester and doing all the work.
- He had been investing all his life, but when he had the best investment opportunity ever, he skipped it.
- If I could, I would have skipped it, but unfortunately biology dictates.
- So, with a bitter sense of disappointment that still lingers to this day, I skipped it.
- I thought about StairMastering, but since my legs are a little sore from yesterday I skipped it.
- Besides, beating myself up isn't working and it doesn't feel good, so I'm skipping it for now.
- And I haven't skipped it in ages, so I think it'll be ok.
- I've gotten tickets to SonicFest 2005 tonight but I am contemplating skipping it.
- 4.2informal no object Run away; disappear.
〈非正式〉逃跑；消失 I'm not giving them a chance to skip off again 我不会再给他们逃跑的机会。 Example sentencesExamples - But as soon as he decides to skip off to another country to make a movie, everyone decides that they actually liked Woody Allen all along.
- So the vacuous Shoreditchers inevitably skip off into the sunset together with that Winkleman terror snapping at their heels.
- Your parents aren't going to let you skip off and become a peasant.
- We walk together, slowly, allowing the others to skip off.
- She had often told others that they would be the ones to skip off and leave her; they would be the ones to ignore her over the boy.
- Are the Germans really going to skip off into the dusk, like the Italians did, and leave the Spanish to sweep up all the riches Europe has to offer?
- It seems that it is a bit of a tradition among graduates to skip off overseas and teach English, and why not?
Synonyms run off, run away, do a disappearing act, make off, take off informal beat it, clear off, vamoose, skedaddle, split, cut and run, fly the coop, do a fade British informal do a runner, do a bunk, scarper North American informal light out, cut out, take a powder Australian informal go through, shoot through vulgar slang bugger off - 4.3informal Depart quickly and secretly from.
〈非正式〉匆匆离开，偷偷溜走 she skipped her home amid rumours of a romance 她在一片风流韵事的谣传之中，匆匆离家而走了。 Example sentencesExamples - Well he did intend to but couldn't think how to so the thought quickly skipped his mind.
- Once out, he skipped town, missing his court appearance.
- It's not even that I secretly skip the horrid hair washing bath night.
5with object Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water. 用（石子）打水漂 they skipped stones across the creek Example sentencesExamples - Melanie and Eon were at the beach, just staring at the bay and skipping rocks across its surface.
- As we smoked and talked, Mike and I would skip flat rocks across the stream below the bridge.
- Daniel laughed, brushed a piece of his blond hair from his eyes, and tried to skip another stone on the cobbles.
- She and her friends had been having a contest to see who could make a stone skip the most when Miree had found it.
- Chiha and Kohibi came to visit her often; she played with them on off times, and taught Kohibi how to skip rocks.
- After that, they just hung out by the beach and talked, skipping rocks across the shallow surface of the water.
- But this tendency can be a flat stone skipped over deep water and crucial insights.
- It was different from how one threw daggers, or stones, or much of anything else; it vaguely resembled skipping a rock.
- The entire play is like skipping stones across the surface of a story - there's no substance.
- And Morgan suddenly became very conscious of the fact he had been skipping stones like a ten-year-old boy.
- Lars taught me to skip rocks, and soon I was better than he was, much to his chagrin.
- The boys skipped stones at every watery spot we found.
- Vincent commented as he watched Pearl trying to skip rocks on the water.
- She stood and cracked her back, replying nonchalantly as she skipped stones.
- As he watches the older kids showing the younger ones how to skip stones, his voice softens.
- Elsa and I greedily drank from the stream while Rowen sat on a bank, and skipped stones across the water.
- I skip a rock across the blog ocean - it skips three pretty times across the waves, and comes to rest below the surface of a blog.
- He looked up at the dragon after throwing a few stones, skipping them a few times over the water, and licked his lips.
- She was trying to skip stones, and wasn't having much luck.
- Wolf skipped a flat stone across the surface, shattering the mirror.
Synonyms throw, toss, fling, cast, pitch
nounPlural skips skɪpskɪp 1A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement. 蹦跳；蹦跳移动 he moved with a strange, dancing skip 他以一种奇怪的舞蹈姿势移动着。 Example sentencesExamples - One Twinkie found a home in my chest pocket, while the other I held out in front of me as I followed out the door, a spry little skip in my step.
- It was as if everyone in the world had a skip to their step today, and it was contagious, as good moods often are.
- Fall is the season when you come alive, and right now the equinox is putting a frisky skip in your step.
- She uttered thanks again and walked swiftly from the stables, a skip in her already jaunty step.
- With a slight skip in her step she too leaves the room.
- She smiled at this action and walked away with a slight skip in her step and I stifled a laugh.
- Still dressed in that red jumpsuit, slim even for her young age, she ran with a skip like a child prancing through a field of daisies.
- Put a skip in your step by skipping out for a lunch time walk.
- I pulled round and left with what can only be described as a skip in my step.
- Spend time doing things that put a skip in your step, a grin on your face, some glory in your life story.
- No more than eight years old he walks briskly with a slight skip in his step past the monument towards the houses beyond.
- Ed had a little skip in his pace, which only added to the glee in him.
- The only mode of transportation she seemed to have was a bouncing skip.
- My chest is puffed out regularly and there is a skip in my step.
- She walked to school that morning with a slight skip in her step.
- She rises and descends with natural ease and skips through a complicated chorus full of rich imagery.
- Shannon noticed a slight skip in his step and laughed to herself.
- He turned with a skip and shambled away, whistling.
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An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions. 〔计算机〕跳跃（进位）；跳行；空指令 Example sentencesExamples - You will, however, notice some animation jumps and skips based on certain commands.
- You might expect that a PCI-based tuner would deliver smoother video and recordings with fewer skips than an external device.
- Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording.
- There are no skips in the other two instruments.
3North American informal A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.
OriginMiddle English: probably of Scandinavian origin. Rhymesblip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, kip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip nounPlural skips skɪpskɪp 1British A large transportable open-topped container for building and other refuse. 〈英〉（装运建材或其他废料用的无顶）倒卸车；料车 I've salvaged a carpet from a skip Example sentencesExamples - Laois County Council may provide skips, refuse sacks, gloves and litter packs if required.
- The council may be able to assist those involved by providing skips, refuse sacks, gloves and litter pickers.
- And it costs £40 to empty the skip, which happens at least once a week.
- After they left, hotel staff found a black duffel bag in a rubbish skip.
- A friend of his managed to salvage four of them from the rubbish skip and returned them.
- A large skip was filled with waste and the excrement was separately treated and disposed of.
- We pay 200 per week to empty the skip.
- The skip containers will be used mainly for garden refuse and rubbish which does not generally fit in the normal green drums.
- The Council sponsored a skip container which was placed outside the graveyard.
- Arriving in the town itself, the taxi manoeuvres around skips and building equipment, evidence that developers are moving in.
- While building work is under way space around the building is needed for scaffolding and skips.
- Carrying heavy bags of rubbish up steel steps to tip over the waist height edge of the skip cannot be safe.
- Supplying waste skips and filling of same with rubbish thrown out from flood damaged shops.
- We had to hire skips to put all the damaged property in.
- The provision of toilets and a rubbish skip is being considered.
- Bradford council workmen swept up the broken glass and rubble before shouldering it into skips to be taken away.
- Anyone who needs a refuse skip for their waste will see the benefits immediately.
- Rubbish littered the site, along with burned-out cars and refuse skips, huge piles of Tarmac and garden rubbish and gas cylinders.
- He should see the recycling skips near Bingley law courts.
2A cage or bucket in which men or materials are lowered and raised in mines and quarries. 罐笼，箕斗，吊斗 Example sentencesExamples - The driver of the skip lorry was taken to Hope Hospital with minor leg injuries.
- The excavator had been lowering a skip to the bottom of the hole when it tipped over the edge and tumbled down.
- The excavator was sitting at the top of the hole, so it could lower a skip down for the mini digger to fill, when it toppled over.
- A skip being lowered from a crane was seen to come close to the group of men laying tiles.
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nounPlural skips skɪpskɪp The captain or director of a side at bowls or curling. （草地滚木球或冰壶运动队的）领队，队长 Example sentencesExamples - As the players bend into their stances and play, the skips employ a variety of hand signals, looking not unlike third-base coaches at times.
- If you are having trouble handling one side, ask the skip if you can play the other side to see if it gives you better results.
- ‘Whitea’ with skip Volkmar Petzold won the first race that day in the fun cruising class.
- An inability to act on instructions from the skip can be damaging to team morale, and can be the foundation of doubt and dissension.
- How often do you see a side holding four or five shots when the opposing skip, with his/her last bowl, draws the shot?
- The opposing skip then played his last shot with weight to try to move the York wood but missed, meaning York took the game 75-74.
- Desert Rats carried on their hundred percent winning streak by beating the Buriram Stompers captained by their new skip Phil.
- Returning to the women's side, skip Marika Bakewell was voted by her curling peers as the all-star skip for the tournament.
- Not once did the seconds step on to the mat until they had received instructions from their skip as to what she wanted them to do.
- Who, outside devotees of the sport, could name the skip of the women's curling team before this year's Winter Olympics?
- Teams of four players termed rinks are led by the skip, as in bowls.
- Still, the Dodger skip delighted in watching the writer's gaffes.
verbskipping, skipped, skips skɪpskɪp [with object]Act as skip of (a side) 当（运动队的）领队 they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson Example sentencesExamples - Ball's victory in the fours final earlier in the year was also against a side skipped by Lavelle.
- In a section four game yesterday afternoon former Springbok Judy Armist's St Andrew's team battled it out with the Strand team skipped by L Logan.
- Smith, a previous QSG captain, was this season handed the task of skipping the Gulf International side.
- The tournament was first played here in 1984 and fittingly the inaugural winner was Border's Hamiltons, skipped by Alma Watt.
- Kevin and Kitty Phillips played well against strong opposition skipped by SA representative Rudi Jacobs.
- Today the Scots play the Swiss Olympic team skipped by Luzia Erbrother.
OriginEarly 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper1. verbskipskɪp [no object]1Move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce. 轻快地蹦跳 she began to skip down the path 她开始沿着小路蹦跳。 Example sentencesExamples - She skipped into the kitchen and took one chicken from the spit.
- Kati whistled happily as she skipped down the sidewalk, walking her imaginary dog.
- Kit practically skipped up the stairs, causing Alan to smile softly to himself.
- Carlie shouted, and she jumped and skipped around the man in girlhood glee.
- The leaves provide shelter or canopy and after a few days the little creatures find their feet and learn to skip and jump.
- Trailed by Sara, he skipped down the stairs and cautiously opened the door.
- I yell at the frisky types skipping along the deep gold sand.
- He gestured towards a small antelope skipping along parallel to us.
- She blew a very flamboyant kiss his way, and she saw him blush before she practically skipped off.
- In a rush of sudden glee, he began to skip down the sidewalk.
- Mr Black bounced in, skipping like a four-year-old being taken to a party.
- She skipped down the hall, pulling on her pants at the same time.
- "Ok " HiKari said happily skipping out and grabbing her backpack.
- When she looked up she saw Molly giggling and skipping down the hallway.
- So I merrily skipped off to biology, thinking that there was absolutely nothing that could go wrong.
- Clive Tyldesley growls randomly as Davids skips past a defender.
- He skipped down the sidewalk and opened the door to his mom's car.
- The woman skipped down the steps until she was beside the two.
- You know this is bull because you just saw Lisa skipping down the hallway.
- She nodded and he nodded to the girl who skipped down the hall.
Synonyms caper, prance, trip, dance, bound, jump, leap, spring, hop, bounce, gambol, frisk, romp, cavort, bob - 1.1 Jump over a rope that is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise.
跳绳 Example sentencesExamples - They skipped through hurried ropes without missing a beat while entering into little spaces as the ropes took different positions and angles.
- Begin each lifting session with a 5 to 10 minute warm-up session by rope skipping.
- Good exercises include running, skipping, aerobics, tennis, weight-training and brisk walking.
- Other good bone-building exercises are skipping, aerobics and brisk walking.
- Twenty minutes of skipping is hard work, so I like to intersperse skipping with endurance exercises.
- Other traditional games such as skipping and marbles are also being brought back in other primary schools.
- Except for the rope skipping, all exercises are the same, so read the form tips in the intermediate workout.
- 1.2North American with object Jump over (a rope) as a game or for exercise.
the girls had been skipping rope Example sentencesExamples - She couldn't skip rope because it wasn't ladylike.
- It takes only three girls to skip rope or two to play house, while more boys are needed for team sports such as football.
- I can't skip rope worth a damn, so this is one of the first things they're way better at than I am.
- In training for the fight, Liston had skipped rope interminably to Coleman Hawkins's ‘Night Train’.
- I had to pretend not to know how to skip rope when, in real life, I was quite good at it.
- The world's elite shadow boxed or skipped rope right next to them.
- The people in this school can't skip a rope even if it's lying on the floor.
- One girl executes cool maneuvers on her own; but she is also skipping a large rope held by two pairs of pals, one stacked on the other.
- 1.3with object Jump lightly over.
轻松跳过 the children used to skip the puddles 孩子们过去常轻松跳过水坑。 Example sentencesExamples - He skipped past two tackles to race into the area, but was foiled crucially at the last moment by Paddy Martin, the big Kilglass No.4.
- Of course they must be fit and able to run and skip a tackle but all that stands for nothing if they don't know what to do with ball.
- 1.4with object Omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following)
略过，跳过（一本书的部分章节或一连续过程中的某个阶段） the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in 录像机的手工操作装置使得观看者可以跳过不感兴趣的部分。 no object she disliked him so much that she skipped over any articles that mentioned him 她如此讨厌他以至于凡提及他名字的文章她都跳过不看。 Example sentencesExamples - Let's skip straight to the end, shall we?
- In fact, he nearly skipped the whole book, but for two or three pages at the end.
- Christians may forgive, but this does not mean that whatever punishment is due to an evil doer must be skipped over.
- When you felt your throat dry and a pit in your stomach, you had probably just skipped a meal.
- I could have sworn my heart just skipped a beat.
- Adult Andrew Drury put in a near perfect performance that enabled him to jump a grade by skipping the yellow belt altogether and moving up to orange belt.
- I'm not giving away a lot of plot details, but if you're still playing the game I'd skip reading the next bit.
- I'll skip right to the next interesting part; when my mom came home.
- Some of the details presented of Jerry's career are skipped over.
- Of course we skip right to the Outcome, which is kind of ambiguous.
- I got out my calculator and my math book and skipped over a song on my CD.
- If you're not terribly interested, then skip ahead past the italics.
- My heart practically skipped a beat and a wide grin spread across my face.
- On the third ring, he answered and I skipped the greetings and immediately jumped to ‘Where are you?’
- As with television, 45 % of online consumers would like to skip commercials easily.
- Then skip ahead to tomorrow, friend, because today is the first day of the 58th Cannes Film Festival.
- Poses may be repeated or skipped, but they should be done in the order given.
- I picked up another one, and my heart almost skipped a beat.
- I was inhaling chapters and barely holding myself back from skipping to the end.
- Be aware that those who connect through cable or DSL also skip the introduction, but not as often.
Synonyms omit, leave out, miss out, dispense with, do without, pass over, bypass, skim over, steer clear of, disregard, ignore - 1.5with object Fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss.
不参加；不合适处理；错过 I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother 我想逃英语课，去看我妈妈。 try not to skip breakfast 尽量不要不吃早餐。 Example sentencesExamples - True, I was skipping first hour and standing right in the middle of the west wing hallway, but it was alright.
- If she keeps skipping meals, confide in your mom or a school counselor.
- But with all of the food you guys provide us here, it's really no big deal to skip a meal or two.
- Your mother may have been wrong: skipping meals may be good for you.
- Many people skip the traditional breakfast and lunch.
- The scheme involves pursuing those who skip bail and fail to turn up to a hearing after being released on bail.
- Teams of officers are hunting them after they skipped bail and failed to attend court.
- She would have never skipped a class or snuck out at night for anyone.
- Whatever you do, don't skip breakfast - even if your stomach is in knots.
- He'd been known to skip lectures and just attend tutes when he was a University student.
- After all, some of them had to have skipped class to attend the sit-in.
- Even worse, skipping breakfast can lead to some diseases.
- ‘Children who skip breakfast can find it difficult to concentrate in class,’ she said.
- I was almost late for the bus, and I had to skip breakfast.
- For any other parents out there reading this, I recommend skipping the above negotiation and waiting until they fall asleep.
- The next day I discovered that the ripple of excitement was apprehension for many people; namely those who had skipped work to attend.
- This close observation of deceit caused her to skip her turn at jumprope.
- So the family members used to eat in rotations, those who had lunch skipped the dinner and vice versa.
- As Train 20 passed into Alabama we skipped the first call for lunch and snacked in the cafe-lounge.
- Skipping breakfast was easy: I just asked Wry to cover for me.
Synonyms fail to attend, play truant from, miss, absent oneself from, take french leave from - 1.6 Move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another.
无序地急速转换 Marian skipped halfheartedly through the book 玛丽安心不在焉地翻阅完了这本书。 Example sentencesExamples - Letters that list complaints or that skip from one subject to another are often rejected or heavily edited.
- But even as he skips over subjects and themes, Kureishi has always returned to his own life for inspiration.
- I was sure that he would act like most other boys and skip away from the deep subjects.
- Thus, what you get for your hard-earned then is an all too brief account, with highlights that skip too quickly from one sport to the next.
- They had skipped from subject to subject, from music, to movies, to classes, to friends and family.
- The verses are a number of independent statements that skip through different subjects.
- Today's post could be accused of being without focus and skipping from one subject to the next.
Synonyms glance at, have a quick look at, flick through, flip through, leaf through, scan, run one's eye over - 1.7informal with object Depart quickly and secretly from.
〈非正式〉匆匆离开，偷偷溜走 she skipped her home amid rumors of a romance 她在一片风流韵事的谣传之中，匆匆离家而走了。 Example sentencesExamples - Once out, he skipped town, missing his court appearance.
- Well he did intend to but couldn't think how to so the thought quickly skipped his mind.
- It's not even that I secretly skip the horrid hair washing bath night.
- 1.8informal Run away; disappear.
〈非正式〉逃跑；消失 I'm not giving them a chance to skip off again 我不会再给他们逃跑的机会。 Example sentencesExamples - So the vacuous Shoreditchers inevitably skip off into the sunset together with that Winkleman terror snapping at their heels.
- Your parents aren't going to let you skip off and become a peasant.
- Are the Germans really going to skip off into the dusk, like the Italians did, and leave the Spanish to sweep up all the riches Europe has to offer?
- She had often told others that they would be the ones to skip off and leave her; they would be the ones to ignore her over the boy.
- We walk together, slowly, allowing the others to skip off.
- But as soon as he decides to skip off to another country to make a movie, everyone decides that they actually liked Woody Allen all along.
- It seems that it is a bit of a tradition among graduates to skip off overseas and teach English, and why not?
Synonyms run off, run away, do a disappearing act, make off, take off - 1.9skip itinformal Abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity.
〈非正式〉放弃（任务、谈话或活动） after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it 我们的行程几经曲折，我们几乎决定放弃了。 Example sentencesExamples - And this just kind of wipes out Congress' intent in law and just skips it.
- I've gotten tickets to SonicFest 2005 tonight but I am contemplating skipping it.
- So, with a bitter sense of disappointment that still lingers to this day, I skipped it.
- Besides, beating myself up isn't working and it doesn't feel good, so I'm skipping it for now.
- He had been investing all his life, but when he had the best investment opportunity ever, he skipped it.
- I thought about StairMastering, but since my legs are a little sore from yesterday I skipped it.
- I wasn't going to skip it after going through the whole semester and doing all the work.
- If I could, I would have skipped it, but unfortunately biology dictates.
- And I haven't skipped it in ages, so I think it'll be ok.
- You can skip it and just take my word that it is extreme.
- 1.10with object Throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.
用（石子）打水漂 Example sentencesExamples - I skip a rock across the blog ocean - it skips three pretty times across the waves, and comes to rest below the surface of a blog.
- It was different from how one threw daggers, or stones, or much of anything else; it vaguely resembled skipping a rock.
- The boys skipped stones at every watery spot we found.
- But this tendency can be a flat stone skipped over deep water and crucial insights.
- She was trying to skip stones, and wasn't having much luck.
- Daniel laughed, brushed a piece of his blond hair from his eyes, and tried to skip another stone on the cobbles.
- She and her friends had been having a contest to see who could make a stone skip the most when Miree had found it.
- Vincent commented as he watched Pearl trying to skip rocks on the water.
- Melanie and Eon were at the beach, just staring at the bay and skipping rocks across its surface.
- And Morgan suddenly became very conscious of the fact he had been skipping stones like a ten-year-old boy.
- The entire play is like skipping stones across the surface of a story - there's no substance.
- After that, they just hung out by the beach and talked, skipping rocks across the shallow surface of the water.
- As we smoked and talked, Mike and I would skip flat rocks across the stream below the bridge.
- As he watches the older kids showing the younger ones how to skip stones, his voice softens.
- She stood and cracked her back, replying nonchalantly as she skipped stones.
- Lars taught me to skip rocks, and soon I was better than he was, much to his chagrin.
- Wolf skipped a flat stone across the surface, shattering the mirror.
- Chiha and Kohibi came to visit her often; she played with them on off times, and taught Kohibi how to skip rocks.
- He looked up at the dragon after throwing a few stones, skipping them a few times over the water, and licked his lips.
- Elsa and I greedily drank from the stream while Rowen sat on a bank, and skipped stones across the water.
Synonyms throw, toss, fling, cast, pitch
nounskipskɪp 1A light, bouncing step; a skipping movement. 蹦跳；蹦跳移动 he moved with a strange, dancing skip 他以一种奇怪的舞蹈姿势移动着。 Example sentencesExamples - I pulled round and left with what can only be described as a skip in my step.
- Spend time doing things that put a skip in your step, a grin on your face, some glory in your life story.
- With a slight skip in her step she too leaves the room.
- It was as if everyone in the world had a skip to their step today, and it was contagious, as good moods often are.
- She uttered thanks again and walked swiftly from the stables, a skip in her already jaunty step.
- Put a skip in your step by skipping out for a lunch time walk.
- She rises and descends with natural ease and skips through a complicated chorus full of rich imagery.
- He turned with a skip and shambled away, whistling.
- Fall is the season when you come alive, and right now the equinox is putting a frisky skip in your step.
- She walked to school that morning with a slight skip in her step.
- No more than eight years old he walks briskly with a slight skip in his step past the monument towards the houses beyond.
- She smiled at this action and walked away with a slight skip in her step and I stifled a laugh.
- The only mode of transportation she seemed to have was a bouncing skip.
- Ed had a little skip in his pace, which only added to the glee in him.
- One Twinkie found a home in my chest pocket, while the other I held out in front of me as I followed out the door, a spry little skip in my step.
- Shannon noticed a slight skip in his step and laughed to herself.
- My chest is puffed out regularly and there is a skip in my step.
- Still dressed in that red jumpsuit, slim even for her young age, she ran with a skip like a child prancing through a field of daisies.
- 1.1Computing An act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
〔计算机〕跳跃（进位）；跳行；空指令 Example sentencesExamples - Recording is prone to skips if you use your computer heavily while it's recording.
- You will, however, notice some animation jumps and skips based on certain commands.
- There are no skips in the other two instruments.
- You might expect that a PCI-based tuner would deliver smoother video and recordings with fewer skips than an external device.
- 1.2North American informal A person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.
OriginMiddle English: probably of Scandinavian origin. nounskipskɪp British A dumpster. Example sentencesExamples - No individual dustbin for them but a collective covered skip.
- The skips have recently been re-arranged in a more logical order so cardboard is last, and there is now an extra compost skip near the other recycling skips.
- It would take more than one skip to take all the rubbish from our garden.
- The paper skip and plastic skip are full for weeks on end.
- Large items can be placed in this skip for a fee of E3 per item.
- Stop using our hedgerows like a very large skip.
nounskipskɪp The captain or director of a team in lawn bowling or curling. （草地滚木球或冰壶运动队的）领队，队长 Example sentencesExamples - How often do you see a side holding four or five shots when the opposing skip, with his/her last bowl, draws the shot?
- If you are having trouble handling one side, ask the skip if you can play the other side to see if it gives you better results.
- As the players bend into their stances and play, the skips employ a variety of hand signals, looking not unlike third-base coaches at times.
- The opposing skip then played his last shot with weight to try to move the York wood but missed, meaning York took the game 75-74.
- Returning to the women's side, skip Marika Bakewell was voted by her curling peers as the all-star skip for the tournament.
- Still, the Dodger skip delighted in watching the writer's gaffes.
- Not once did the seconds step on to the mat until they had received instructions from their skip as to what she wanted them to do.
- Teams of four players termed rinks are led by the skip, as in bowls.
- Who, outside devotees of the sport, could name the skip of the women's curling team before this year's Winter Olympics?
- ‘Whitea’ with skip Volkmar Petzold won the first race that day in the fun cruising class.
- Desert Rats carried on their hundred percent winning streak by beating the Buriram Stompers captained by their new skip Phil.
- An inability to act on instructions from the skip can be damaging to team morale, and can be the foundation of doubt and dissension.
verbskipskɪp [with object]Act as skip of (a side) 当（运动队的）领队 they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson Example sentencesExamples - In a section four game yesterday afternoon former Springbok Judy Armist's St Andrew's team battled it out with the Strand team skipped by L Logan.
- The tournament was first played here in 1984 and fittingly the inaugural winner was Border's Hamiltons, skipped by Alma Watt.
- Kevin and Kitty Phillips played well against strong opposition skipped by SA representative Rudi Jacobs.
- Smith, a previous QSG captain, was this season handed the task of skipping the Gulf International side.
- Ball's victory in the fours final earlier in the year was also against a side skipped by Lavelle.
- Today the Scots play the Swiss Olympic team skipped by Luzia Erbrother.
OriginEarly 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper. |