Skim

(noun.) reading or glancing through quickly.

(noun.) a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; 'there was a thin skim of oil on the water'.

(verb.) read superficially.

(verb.) remove from the surface; 'skim cream from the surface of milk'.

(verb.) coat (a liquid) with a layer.

(verb.) cause to skip over a surface; 'Skip a stone across the pond'.

(adj.) used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; 'yogurt made with skim milk'; 'she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter' .

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• Boil lightly for fifteen minutes, allow to cool, and then skim off the wax which floats on the surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I wanted to be the one to tell you the grand surprise, and have 'first skim' as we used to say when we squabbled about the cream. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She did not skim over it, but walked down it, and guided herself by the banisters on account of her candle having died out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The cream which rises will keep, and the skim-milk will remain sweet for several weeks; this I have tried in the dairy at Beaumont College. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Here aloft, the companions of the swift-winged birds, we skim through the unresisting element, fleetly and fearlessly. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But ere the words had passed his lips she was across the snowy road, rather skimming than wading the drifts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• During our stay at Naples, we often returned to this cave, sometimes alone, skimming the sun-lit sea, and each time added to our store. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Then the airship began to descend, taking the circles easily, and finally skimming down to the ground. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They have a peculiar and mysterious power of skimming out of rooms, which other mortals possess not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The ancient methods of simply melting and skimming the bullion dross have been superseded. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He passed me at speed, hardly feeling the earth he skimmed, and seeing nothing on either hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Off she skimmed, bearing the cherub along, nor ever stopped, nor suffered him to stop, until she had pulled at the bell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The crucible is now covered and the fusion kept up for about thirty-five minutes, when the dross is skimmed off, and the alloy found ready for use. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The coffee was gray with milk, and I skimmed the milk scum off the top with a piece of bread. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• In the centrifugal skimmer the milk is continuously poured in through a funnel, and the cream runs out continuously through one spout, and the skimmed milk at the other. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I have just skimmed it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• When she was serene she skimmed like a swallow, and that is how she was moving now. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Mercury, swift-responsive, appears, receives instructions whom to produce, skims away, produces the aforesaid, and departs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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