| 单词 | skid road |
| 释义 | > as lemmasskid road skid road n. (a) a way or track formed of skids ( 2d) along which logs are hauled; (b) North American, originally a downtown area frequented by loggers; now gen. = skid row n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs flume1784 log-rollinga1792 drive1835 river-driving1843 river drive1845 sluice-way1851 sacking1860 timber drivea1861 skidding1877 log-running1878 skid road1880 rigging1897 swamping1902 log-drivea1904 high lead1905 high-lining1919 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > disreputable purlieu1619 urban jungle1849 cardboard city1876 skid road1880 skid row1931 New Jack City1989 1880 7th Rep. Topogr. Surv. Adirondack Reg. 176 Advised that lumbermen had cut ‘skid-roads’ on which logs were drawn [etc.]. 1906 Log of ‘Columbia’ i. 8/1 ‘We'll likely see him in town.’.. ‘He'll be in the Skid road somewhere.’ 1925 Amer. Speech 1 135 When the logger of to-day speaks of the ‘skid-road’ he means the place where loggers gather when they are in town. 1940 Amer. Mercury Dec. 412 Most of the skid-road bars provide either a floor show..or a hill-billy band. 1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate iii. 98 Arriving in Dawson like some little tramp from Seattle's Skid Road. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 May 5/5 Young heroin users are replacing the Skid Road addicts in British Columbia. 1980 Washington Post 1 Mar. a13/4 In Seattle, where the ‘Skid Row’ term originated ‘from flophouses built along the ‘Skid Road’ of lumber being ‘skidded’ to the water front’, reminders of that age remain. < as lemmas |
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