skirt

jupe

Vêtement qui descend depuis la taille et couvre une partie ou la totalité des jambes.

En anglais simple : A piece of clothing that hangs from the waist and covers some or all of the legs.

• She wore a red skirt.
• This skirt has two pockets.
• Do you prefer skirts or trousers?

Expressions courantes : long skirt, short skirt, wear a skirt

éluder, éviter

Éviter de traiter directement un sujet ou un problème.

En anglais simple : To avoid dealing with a subject or problem directly.

• He tried to skirt the issue.
• She skirted my question about the missing money.
• We cannot keep skirting around this problem.

Comment l'utiliser : skirt around something (The report skirts around the problem of cost.)

Synonymes : avoid, evade

Contraires : confront

Expressions courantes : skirt the issue, skirt a question, skirt around something

contourner, longer

Passer le long du bord de quelque chose plutôt que par son milieu.

En anglais simple : To travel along the edge of something instead of going through its middle.

• The walkers skirted the lake.
• We skirt the city to avoid heavy traffic.
• Our route skirted a thick forest.

Comment l'utiliser : skirt around something (We skirted around the flooded village.)

Synonymes : go around, bypass

Expressions courantes : skirt a mountain, skirt the city, skirt around something

border

S’étendre le long du bord d’un lieu ou en former la limite extérieure.

En anglais simple : To lie along the edge of a place or form its outer border.

• Trees skirt the field.
• A narrow road skirts the lake.
• Low hills skirted the wide plain.

Synonymes : border, fringe

Expressions courantes : skirt a field, skirt a village, skirt the coast