skid

• n. 打滑；[车辆] 刹车；滑轨，滑动垫木
• vt. 刹住，使减速；滚滑
• vi. 打滑

可能来自古诺斯语 skith,小木棍，木条，词源同 ski.用于指伐木场用木头铺设的滑道，用于 把山上砍伐的树木运下山，引申词义滑轨，滑动垫木等，后用于动词词义侧滑，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.

我猛地一踩刹车，结果车子打滑了。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He became a skid row type of drunkard.

他变成了那种贫民区里常见的醉鬼。

来自柯林斯例句

3. to be on skid row

住在贫民区

来自《权威词典》

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

他猛然刹车，使得前车轮打滑了。

来自《权威词典》

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

他突然剎车, 使得前轮打了滑.

来自《简明英汉词典》