"Skim" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 点水 | diǎn shuǐ | to skim / lightly touching the water (as the dragonfly in the idiom 蜻蜓點水|蜻蜓点水) / skin-deep |  |
| 涉猎 | shè liè | to skim (through a book) / to read cursorily / to dip into |  |
| 脱脂 | tuō zhī | to remove fat / to skim (milk) | |
| 掠 | lu:è | to take over by force / to rob / to plunder / to brush over / to skim / to sweep | |
| 撇去 | piē qù | skim | |
| 流览 | liú lǎn | to skim / to browse | |
| 浏览 | liú lǎn | to skim over / to browse | |
| 概览 | gài lǎn | general overview / to skim through | |
| 略读 | lu:è dú | to read cursorily / to skim through | |
| 撇掉 | piē diào | to skim froth or foam from the surface of a liquid | |
| 营养脱脂奶 | yíng yǎng tuō zhī nǎi | reinforced skim milk | |
