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冰鞋;溜冰鞋
Skates are ice-skates.
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四輪溜冰鞋;旱冰鞋
Skates are roller-skates.
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VERB
溜冰;滑冰
If you skate, you move about wearing ice-skates or roller-skates.
例句
I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice...
我真的滑冰了——盡管有些踉蹌，但沒有跌跟頭。
Dan skated up to him.
丹滑著冰來到他的面前。
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鰩魚(一種扁平狀海魚)
A skate is a kind of flat sea fish.
例句
Boats had plenty of mackerel and a few skate.
那些船上有許多鯖魚，還有幾條鰩魚。
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VERB
避談;回避;搪塞
If you skate over or round a difficult subject, you avoid discussing it.
例句
Scientists have tended to skate over the difficulties of explaining dreams...
科學家們往往回避釋夢的難題。
When pressed, he skates around the subject of those women who he met as a 19-year-old.
別人逼問他有關他 19 歲時遇到的那些女人的情況時，他就會加以搪塞。