| 词组 | skirt |
| 释义 | skirt Bernstein 1965 cites skirt around as a redundancy to be avoided, inasmuch as skirt by itself means "to go around." According to our evidence, the verb skirt occurs only occasionally with around (or, in British use, with round) in edited writing, but it is certainly standard. Here are a few examples: • ... the doctor may think it unwise and even irresponsible to add desolation to pain; and so he skirts around the truth —Norman Cousins, Saturday Rev., 1 Oct. 1977 • Mr. Heilman's book skirts around the edges of the question —Arthur Hertzberg, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 3 Feb. 1985 • He obviously wanted me to comment on the Harvard trouble ... , and I was not less eager to avoid it, so we skirted round each other amusingly —Harold J. Laski, letter, 3 July 1922 • ... by omission only, never by distortion, or by supple skirting round ugly truth —Times Literary Supp., 1 June 1940 See redundancy. |
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