| 单词 | skip |
| 释义 | skip (once / 254 pages) vn When you skip, you do a little hop from foot to foot as you move along. It's pretty common to see little kids skip down the sidewalk or across the playground. While a happy, running hop is one kind of skip, you can also use this verb to mean "pass up" or "pass over." You might arrive late to the movies and skip the trailers at the beginning, or skip the bread basket at a restaurant so you have room for dessert later. The earliest meaning of skip, from the 1300's, is "to spring lightly," from the Old Norse root word skopa. WORD FAMILYskip: skipped, skipper, skipping, skips+/skipper: skippered, skippering, skippers USAGE EXAMPLESThe Hurricanes' quarterback is no longer the Hurricanes' quarterback, after announcing Monday night he is skipping his senior season and entering the NFL draft. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) The wrist injury last year forced Nadal to withdraw from the French Open before the third round and skip Wimbledon. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Many young parents, especially teenagers, skip college entirely. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v jump lightly Syn|Hyper hop, hop-skip bound, jump, leap, spring move forward by leaps and bounds 2v cause to skip over a surface Skip a stone across the pond Syn|Hyper skim, skitter throw propel through the air 3v bound off one point after another Syn|Hyper bound off bounce, bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop spring back; spring away from an impact 4v bypass He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible Syn|Hyper jump, pass over, skip over drop, leave out, miss, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit leave undone or leave out 5v leave suddenly skip town Syn|Hyper decamp, vamoose go away, go forth, leave go away from a place 6v intentionally fail to attend Syn|Hypo|Hyper cut bunk off, play hooky play truant from work or school miss fail to attend an event or activity 7n a gait in which steps and hops alternate Hyper gait a person's manner of walking 8n a mistake resulting from neglect Syn|Hypo|Hyper omission failure an unexpected omission dashing hopes, disappointmentan act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone breacha failure to perform some promised act or obligation copouta failure to face some difficulty squarely error, fault, mistake a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention |
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