避免谈论（某事），特别是因为谈论它很困难或令人尴尬：指敷衍地处理或回避某个话题，尤其是因为它很难或令人尴尬。
skate over //
动词 to cross on or as if on skates 滑过
treat hurriedly or avoid dealing with properly
同义词： gloss over / smooth over / slur over / skimp over
... skate over thin ice 谈论棘手的问题 skate over 掠过 skate 冰鞋 ...
... hush up 防止 ... 张扬出去... skate over 一笔带过 slur over 搪塞, 敷衍了事...
Skate over in yours eyes.
在你的眼中滑过。
He always tries to skate over difficulties.
他总是试图把困难一语带过。
Skate over thin ice, like standing upon edge of abyss.
如履薄冰，如临深渊。
But all of this just seems to skate over the top of the enigmatic Cambodians who walk their own invisible paths.
He does not skate over the conduct of Allied troops who apparently looted more freely than the Germans, or the appalling record of French Moroccan troops, who raped their way through the mountains south of Rome without being held to account then or later.
Even so, this pretty bauble of a picture -- which looks like it was filmed in a giant snow globe - scrapes together enough invention, exuberance and goofiness to skate over this blatant misstep, and Roberts herself is so willing to give it the old college try you wind up rooting for her regardless.