Skirt

(noun.) a garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women.

(noun.) cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist.

(verb.) pass around or about; move along the border; 'The boat skirted the coast'.

(verb.) form the edge of.

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• Mr. Chopper said, catching the Captain by the skirt. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Meg smiled and relented, and whispered as they stood waiting to catch the time, Take care my skirt doesn't trip you up. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• At their door she caught her skirt in the step of the carriage, and fell against him. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• A bramble caught hold of her skirt, and checked her progress. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Gudrun was all scarlet and royal blue--a scarlet jersey and cap, and a royal blue skirt and stockings. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Briarfield lights starred the purple skirt of the moor. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As I passed the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my skirt, and a low voice whispered, Walk past me, and then look back at me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Step into this neat garden-house on the skirts of Whinbury, walk forward into the little parlour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The brushing of skirts and elbows, sometimes the bumping of shoulders, could be heard against the very panels. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Is it there that the men wear skirts as do the women? 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Two or three times, by the way, I thought I observed in the indistinct light the skirts of a female figure going up before us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• What provoking burr has been inconveniently attracted to the charming skirts, and with difficulty shaken off? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Thereupon all the young ladies rose and began shaking their skirts out behind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• But it seems to me that with enough _cojones_ you would not wear skirts. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• She skirted the bank and went round to the wicket before the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I had been looking at the road that skirted the shore for guards but did not see any. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• It was the figure of an old man with a bowed head, wearing a large brimmed low-crowned hat, and a long-skirted coat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She did not turn her head to look at a group of dark creatures further on, who fled from her presence as she skirted a ravine where they fed. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A thick wood skirted the meadow-land in another direction; but they could not have gained that covert for the same reason. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The coat was wide-skirted; and in that respect like _the_ coat, but, oh how different! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• From Valencia, the homeward course will be continued, skirting along the coast of Spain. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Sometimes, we strike into the skirting mud, to avoid the stones that clatter us and shake us; sometimes, we stick in ruts and sloughs there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I already knew that the papers were probably in the room, but I had no desire to rip up all the planking and skirting in search of them. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• There, Margaret, the sun is for ever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendour. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• We spent one pleasant day skirting along the Isles of Greece. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Skirting its southern border rises Little Hermon, over whose summit a glimpse of Gilboa is caught. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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