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skate over/around something
phrasal verb with skateverb[ I+ adv/prep, T ]uk /skeɪt/ us /skeɪt/
(UK alsoskate round sth)
to avoid dealing completely with something or to fail to pay enough attention to it: 对…一带而过；对…轻描淡写
Providing homeless people with somewhere to stay when the weather is cold only skates around the problem, it doesn't solve it.只在天冷的时候为无家可归者提供住处，这只是治标不治本的做法，并不能真正解决问题。
I didn't understand what the teacher said about prepositions, because she only skated over it.我不明白老师所讲的关于介词的内容，因为她只是一带而过讲了一下。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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blow something/someone off
brush
brush someone/something aside
chopped liver
damn
denigrate
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laugh something off
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look down on someone
minoritize
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never
shrug
shrug away
shrug something off
skate
sniff at something
sweep something aside
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