skip
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they skip | |
| he / she / it skips | |
| past simple skipped | |
| past participle skipped | |
| -ing form skipping |
- [intransitive] (+ adv./prep.)
to move forwards lightly and quickly making a little jump with each step 蹦蹦跳跳地走 She skipped happily along beside me. 她連蹦帶跳，高高興興地跟着我走。 Lambs were skipping about in the fields. 小羊在田野裏蹦蹦跳跳。
Extra ExamplesScott practically skipped home, he was so happy. 斯科特幾乎是蹦蹦跳跳地回了家，他太高興了。 She skipped off to play with her friends. 她蹦蹦跳跳地跑去和朋友們玩。 She skipped to the door. 她蹦蹦跳跳地來到門前。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- lightly
- nimbly
- happily
- …
- down
- up
- to
- …
- somebody’s heart skips a beat
- [intransitive] (British English) (North American English jump rope, skip rope [transitive])
to jump over a rope which is held at both ends by yourself or by two other people and is passed again and again over your head and under your feet 跳繩 He skips for about 20 minutes a day. 他每天大約跳20分鐘。 The girls were skipping in the playground. 姑娘們在操場上跳繩。 She likes to skip rope as a warm-up. 她喜歡以跳繩來熱身。
- [transitive] skip something
to not do something that you usually do or should do 不做（應做的事等）；不參加 I often skip breakfast altogether. 我常常幹脆不吃早飯。 - (especially North American English)
She decided to skip class that afternoon. 她決定那天下午逃課。
- [transitive, intransitive]
to leave out something that would normally be the next thing that you would do, read, etc. 跳過（正常的步驟等）；略過；漏過 - skip something
You can skip the next chapter if you have covered the topic in class. 下一章，你要是在課堂上已經講到了，就可以跳過。 - (figurative)
What I saw made my heart skip a beat. 我看到所發生的事時心跳都停頓了一下。 - skip over something
I skipped over the last part of the book. 那本書的最後一部分我略過沒讀。 - skip to something
I suggest we skip to the last item on the agenda. 我建議我們跳到議程的最後一項。
- skip something
- [intransitive] + adv./prep.
to move from one place to another or from one subject to another very quickly 快速轉移；驟然轉換（話題） - [transitive] skip something (informal)
to leave a place secretly or suddenly 悄悄溜走；突然離開 - (British English also skim)[transitive] skip something (across, over, etc. something)
to make a flat stone jump across the surface of water 打水漂
move with jumps蹦蹦跳跳地走
jump over rope跳繩
not do something不做某事
change quickly快速轉換
leave secretly秘密離去
stones石塊
Word Originverb Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
Idioms
somebody’s heart misses/skips a beat
used to say that somebody has a sudden feeling of fear, excitement, etc. （表示突然感到恐懼、興奮等）心裏咯噔一下 My heart missed a beat when I saw who it was. 當我看到是誰時，我的心髒漏跳了一拍。
jump/skip bail
to fail to appear at your trial after you have paid money to be allowed to go free until the trial 跳過： 在您付款後才可以出現在您的試用版中，以便免費試用直到試用He skipped bail and went on the run for two weeks. 他棄保潛逃，逃亡了兩周。
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