skid

• n. 打滑；[車輛] 刹車；滑軌，滑動墊木
• vt. 刹住，使減速；滾滑
• vi. 打滑

可能來自古諾斯語 skith,小木棍，木條，詞源同 ski.用於指伐木場用木頭鋪設的滑道，用於 把山上砍伐的樹木運下山，引申詞義滑軌，滑動墊木等，後用於動詞詞義側滑，打滑。

skid (n.)

c. 1600, "beam or plank on which something rests," especially on which something heavy can be rolled from place to place (1782), of uncertain origin, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse skið "stick of wood" (see ski (n.)). As "a sliding along" from 1890; specifically of motor vehicles from 1903. Skid-mark is from 1914.

In the timber regions of the American West, skids laid down one after another to form a road were "a poor thing for pleasure walks, but admirably adapted for hauling logs on the ground with a minimum of friction" ["Out West" magazine, October 1903]. A skid as something used to facilitate downhill motion led to figurative phrases such as hit the skids "go into rapid decline" (1909), and see skid row.

skid (v.)

1670s, "apply a skid to (a wheel, to keep it from turning)," from skid (n.). Meaning "slide along" first recorded 1838; extended sense of "slip sideways" (on a wet road, etc.) first recorded 1884. The original notion is of a block of wood for stopping a wheel; the modern senses are from the notion of a wheel slipping when blocked from revolving.

1. I slammed the brakes on and went into a skid.

我猛地一踩刹車，結果車子打滑了。

來自柯林斯例句

2. He became a skid row type of drunkard.

他變成了那種貧民區裏常見的醉鬼。

來自柯林斯例句

3. to be on skid row

住在貧民區

來自《權威詞典》

4. He braked suddenly, causing the front wheels to skid.

他猛然刹車，使得前車輪打滑了。

來自《權威詞典》

5. He braked suddenly, causing the front wheels to skid.

他突然剎車, 使得前輪打了滑.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》