- the movement of a vehicle when it suddenly slides to one side because you have lost control of it侧滑;打滑;突然向一侧滑行
- The motorbike went into a skid.摩托车朝一侧滑了出去。
- The skid marks on the road showed how fast the car had been travelling.公路上留下的滑行痕迹说明这辆车当时开得有多快。
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + skidskid + nounSee full entry - a part that is on the bottom of some aircraft, next to the wheels, and is used for landing(飞机的)起落橇,滑橇
- the skids of a helicopter直升机的起落橇
Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘supporting beam’): perhaps related to Old Norse skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.
Idioms - (informal) to be in a bad situation that will get worse逐渐衰落;走下坡路
- The government was on the skids for months before the election.选举前的几个月,政府一直在走下坡路。
Topics Difficulty and failurec2
put the skids under somebody/something
- (informal) to stop somebody/something from being successful or making progress使失败;使走下坡路Topics Difficulty and failurec2