skate

Từ điển Việt Anh Việt 4in1 - English Vietnamese 4 in 1 Dictionary

I.skate¹ /skeɪt/ BrE AmE noun
[Sense 1-2,4: Date: 1600-1700; Language: Dutch; Origin: schaats 'stilt, skate', from Old North French escache 'stilt']
[Sense 3: Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old Norse; Origin: skata]
1. [countable] one of a pair of boots with metal blades on the bottom, for moving quickly on ice SYN ice skate
2. [countable] one of a pair of boots or frames with small wheels on the bottom, for moving quickly on flat smooth surfaces SYN roller skate
3. [uncountable and countable] (plural skate or skates) a large flat sea fish that can be eaten
4. get/put your skates on British English spoken used to tell someone to hurry:
Put your skates on, or you’ll be late for school.
II.skate² BrE AmE verb [intransitive]
1. to move on skates:
The children skated on the frozen pond.
2. be skating on thin ice informal to be doing something that may get you into trouble
—skater noun [countable]
skate over/around something phrasal verb
to avoid mentioning a problem or subject, or not give it enough attention:
The President was accused of skating over the issue of the homeless.

skatehu

◎	[skeit]
※	danh từ, số nhiều skate, skates
	■	(động vật học) cá đuối
※	danh từ
	■	(từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) người già ốm
	■	người bị khinh rẻ
※	danh từ
	■	patanh (như) roller-skate
	■	giầy trượt băng; lưỡi trượt
	〆	get/put one's skates in
		✓	(thông tục) nhanh lên
※	nội động từ
	■	trượt băng; đi nhanh (như) roller-skate
	〆	to skate over (on) thin ice
		✓	nói đến một vấn đề tế nhị
		✓	ở trong hoàn cảnh nguy hiểm
	〆	be skating on thin ice
		✓	nói, (làm) một vấn đề tế nhị
	〆	skate over/round something
		✓	nói gián tiếp