Skimmers get their name from their unusual feeding technique--their extended lower bill detects fish just below the water surface.

燕鸥因它们独特的捕食技巧而命名——它们延伸的下喙可以探测出距离水面不深处的鱼。

And destroyed our one and only pool skimmer!

而且还弄坏了我们唯一的网勺！

Today, birds like black skimmers feed in this way.

现代鸟类，如黑剪嘴鸥，就是这样觅食的。

Skimmers raise their chicks on a fish diet. But they serve their portions whole which can cause problems for their young.

燕鸥用鱼喂养它们的幼鸟。但是他们确是为大部分提供的，因此会对幼鸟产生不好影响。

A skimmer's neck is built to absorb sudden impacts.

剪嘴鸥的颈部是为了吸收突然撞击而演化出来的。

And new research shows that might actually be possible as hackers can crack open a store register and add something called a skimmer.

新的研究表明，这实际上是可能的，因为黑客可以破解商店收银机并添加一种叫做 skimmer 的东西。

This bamboo skimmer is gonna allow me to get all of the bits and pieces of broccoli rabe out effectively when I'm in the process of blanching.

当我在漂白过程中时，这个竹制撇渣器可以让我有效地去除西兰花的所有碎片。

I'm ashamed to admit it, but when I lost one of the big races, I might have hit one of the other swimmers in the leg with a skimmer pole.

我羞于承认，但我输了一场重要的比赛后，我貌似用了泳池捞叶网砸了其他选手的腿。

Several cooks, quite white in the ruddy glow of the cast-iron, were attending to the evening soup mounted on metal ladders and armed with skimmers fixed to long handles.

几个厨师，在铸铁发出的红光中显得十分白皙，他们坐在金属梯子上，手持固定在长柄上的撇渣器，正在做晚汤。

And I meant by that until she proved by summoning, beckoning and getting together that she was not a skimmer of surfaces merely, but had looked beneath into the depths.

我的意思是直到她通过召唤、招手和聚在一起证明她不仅仅是表面的掠过者，而是深入到深处。

It was a book more bought than read, but even skimmers got the message: the European Union was a vitally important experiment, an attempt to transcend the ideological, nationalist and ethnic schisms that had cursed the continent.

大多数购买此书的人都没有读过，但只要是粗略读过此书的人都能得到这样的信息: 欧盟曾是一个相当重要的实验，这个实验企图超越那些咒骂社会的理想民族主义者和民族分裂者。

Oil spill cleanup can involve a bunch of different tools, including floating barriers called booms, chemical dispersants and biological agents, and skimmers, which are boats that skim or scoop spilled oil off the water's surface.

溢油清理可能涉及许多不同的工具，包括称为围油栏的浮动屏障、化学分散剂和生物制剂，以及撇油器，它们是从水面上撇去或舀出溢出的油的船只。