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

• Walls are covered in quick-drying, water-based gloss and clad with standard softwood skirting.
  墙面用水基快干明漆打底，并用标准软木壁脚板把墙包起来。
• Gaps between floorboards and skirting should be filled.
  地板和壁脚板之间的裂缝应该填上。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• After skirting the woods, he followed the curve of the river and came to a new place where the river valley abruptly opened up.
  绕过一片树林子以后，他顺着河湾走进了一块新的地方。他看见河谷骤然开阔了。
• Skirting the lotus pond, far and near, high and low, are trees among which willows predominate.
  荷塘的四面，远远近近，高高低低都是树，而属柳树最多。
• Feasibility analysis of heating with skirting board and window sill
  踢脚线、窗台板式散热器采暖的可行性分析
• 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。
• By skirting that truth, "house of cards", for all its dramatic tension and clever dialogue, amounts to a kind of Washingtonian escapism.
  《纸牌屋》用表演张力和巧妙的对白掩盖了事实，算是一种华盛顿人的逃避主义吧。