skirting

基本解释

We recover somehow and have a slightly awkward chat about work and skirting around the events of the weekend.
过了一会儿，我们缓过气来了，有点尴尬地谈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.
撕下墙纸，剪掉防潮墙脚线——像这样通过油漆和装修房屋来象征对心灵的清扫，这种技法通常很有风险。
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.
社会学家早就注意到埃及穷人有办法处理好他们缺失的东西，例如狭窄的空间和有限的自由，他们的办法就是灵活的避开这些。

Maybe we're skirting rhetorical questions of that kind, but we're really not.
你们想回避这样的问题，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.