The plural skate is used in meaning 4. 义项 4 的复数形式为 skate。
- 冰鞋;溜冰鞋
Skates are ice-skates.
- 四轮溜冰鞋;旱冰鞋
Skates are roller-skates.
- VERB 溜冰;滑冰
If you skate, you move about wearing ice-skates or roller-skates.
- I actually skated, and despite some teetering I did not fall on the ice...
我真的滑冰了——尽管有些踉跄,但没有跌跟头。 - Dan skated up to him.
丹滑着冰来到他的面前。
- N-COUNT 鳐鱼(一种扁平状海鱼)
A skate is a kind of flat sea fish.
- Boats had plenty of mackerel and a few skate.
那些船上有许多鲭鱼,还有几条鳐鱼。 - Skate is this fish eaten as food.
(供食用的)鳐鱼
- VERB 避谈;回避;搪塞
If you skate over or round a difficult subject, you avoid discussing it.
- Scientists have tended to skate over the difficulties of explaining dreams...
科学家们往往回避释梦的难题。 - When pressed, he skates around the subject of those women who he met as a 19-year-old.
别人逼问他有关他 19 岁时遇到的那些女人的情况时,他就会加以搪塞。