skirting

基本解釋

We recover somehow and have a slightly awkward chat about work and skirting around the events of the weekend.
過了一會兒，我們緩過氣來了，有點(diǎn)尷尬地談起了工作和周末的那些事情。
To use painting and decorating—stripping off wallpaper, cutting out damp skirting—as a symbol of cleansing the soul is risky.
撕下墻紙，剪掉防潮墻腳線——像這樣通過油漆和裝修房屋來象征對心靈的清掃，這種技法通常很有風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。
Sociologists have long noted the knack of Egypt’s poor to appropriate things they lack, such as space and freedom, by nimbly skirting the rules.
社會學(xué)家早就注意到埃及窮人有辦法處理好他們?nèi)笔У臇|西，例如狹窄的空間和有限的自由，他們的辦法就是靈活的避開這些。

Maybe we're skirting rhetorical questions of that kind, but we're really not.
你們想回避這樣的問題，但是回避不了。
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Mr. GOLDSMITH: And even when he was skirting the law, he didn't do so in secret.
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Even when it came to skirting the edge of (or possibly even breaking) the law.
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When you make their image even more negative by suggesting they are skirting tax rules, watch out.
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A skirt is a piece of clothing worn by women and girls. It fastens at the waist and hangs down around the legs.
Something that skirts an area is situated around the edge of it.
If you skirt a problem or question, you avoid dealing with it.