skate
skate 英 [skeɪt] 美 [sket]
vi. 滑冰；滑过 n. 溜冰；冰鞋
进行时:skating 过去式:skated 过去分词:skated 第三人称单数:skates 名词复数:skates
- Skates are things you wear on your feet so you can roll around a roller rink or glide across an icy pond. Roller skates have wheels on the bottom, and ice skates have metal blades.
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- vi. 滑冰；滑过
- n. 溜冰；冰鞋
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1. Can you skate?
你会滑冰吗？
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2. It was so cold that we were able to go skating on the lake.
天气极冷，我们能到湖上去滑冰了。
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3. He politely skated over the issue.
他礼貌地避开了那个问题。
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4. a pair of skates
一双冰鞋
- skate (n.1) "type of flat, cartilaginous fish, a kind of ray," mid-14c., from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse skata "skate," Danish skade, Faeroese skøta, of unknown origin.
- skate (n.2) "ice skate," 1660s, skeates "ice skates," from Dutch schaats (plural schaatsen), a singular mistaken in English for plural, from Middle Dutch schaetse. The word and the custom were brought to England after the Restoration by exiled followers of Charles II who had taken refuge in Holland.
- skate (v.) 1690s, "to ice-skate," from skate (n.2). U.S. slang sense of "to get away with something" is attested from 1945. Related: Skated; skating. A modern Latinate word for an ice-skating rink is glaciarium (1876).
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