skirting

英 [ˈskɜːtɪŋ]

美 [ˈskɜːrtɪŋ]

v.  环绕…的四周; 位于…的边缘; 沿…的边缘走; 绕开，回避(话题)
skirt的现在分词

复数：skirtings　现在分词：skirting　

BNC.20063 / COCA.31168

柯林斯词典

• 裙子;短裙
  Askirtis a piece of clothing worn by women and girls. It fastens at the waist and hangs down around the legs.
• VERB 位于…的边缘;位于…的外围;围绕
  Something thatskirtsan area is situated around the edge of it.
  1. We raced across a large field that skirted the slope of a hill.
     我们从山坡下的一大片田地里飞奔而过。
• VERB 沿着…的边缘走;沿着…的外围走;绕着…走
  If youskirtsomething, you go around the edge of it.
  1. We shall be skirting the island on our way...
     我们将一路环岛而行。
  2. She skirted round the edge of the room to the door.
     她贴着房间的墙边走到了门口。
• VERB 避开，回避(困难、问题等)
  If youskirta problem or question, you avoid dealing with it.
  1. He skirted the hardest issues, concentrating on areas of possible agreement...
     他避开了最棘手的问题，将精力集中于有可能达成一致的领域。
  2. He skirted round his main differences with her.
     他避开了和她之间的主要分歧。

双语例句

• The world has stepped back from the brink, but is still skirting the edge of the precipice.
  世界已从悬崖边缘后退，但并没有完全脱离绝壁附近的危险地带。
• Wearisome as this topic has become, Mr Maitland achieves nothing by skirting it.
  尽管这一话题已经让人感到厌倦，梅特兰若想回避，就只能一无所获。
• Considered the features of indoor environment, a simple fast indoor navigation algorithm for vision-guide mobile robot was presented, which used skirting lines as the reference objects to locate the mobile robot.
  针对室内导航的环境特点，提出了一种简单快速的、以踢脚线为参考目标的移动机器人室内导航方法。
• He was skirting the issue.
  他是在回避问题。
• In a two-hour prime-time show, held in honor of World Consumer Rights Day, China Central Television accused Nikon of selling faulty cameras and skirting warranty policies.
  这场时长两个小时的晚会在周六晚上的黄金时段播出，以国际消费者权益日为主题。央视在此次晚会中曝光了尼康销售存在质量问题的相机，并回避保修政策。
• Laying of tiles to floor slabs in the changing room area including skirting ( staff and fitness rooms);
  对更衣室区域（员工及健身房）的楼板包括踢脚线贴砖。
• Subtlety is one of the arts of both diplomacy and statecraft, and it often provides ways of resolving, or at least skirting, otherwise intractable differences.
  微妙莫测是外交和政治手腕艺术之一，常会为难以处理的分歧提供解决或至少是避开的方法。
• He has found them to be somewhat lacking in emotional depth; skirting round problems rather than meeting them head on.
  他发现他们之间感情不深，谈话时老是绕圈子，而不是直接接触问题。
• He's doing all the joinery work in the new house by himself and has just put a skirting board in the living room.
  他一个人在干新房子里所有的细木工活，刚在起居室装了踢脚板。
• We shall be skirting the island on our way
  我们将一路环岛而行。