一個人掉到的位置
從一條街變成一種處境：說某人 on skid row，是把那條街的樣子整個搬到他的人生上，所以他人在哪裡並不重要。
noun · C1
If someone is on skid row, their life has fallen apart: they have lost their job, they have nowhere to live, and the phrase usually suggests heavy drinking as well.
落到人生谷底
核心畫面
Start with a skid road: the track down which dragged timber. At the bottom of it were the cheap streets where the stayed between jobs, and by the 1850s that corner of Seattle was the skid road. The name spread to other cities, lost its timber, and came to mean the worst-off part of town. Then it slid one step further, off the map altogether: a person can be on skid row, meaning their own life has gone all the way down.
可以想成一條把木頭拖下山的舊路。路的盡頭是伐木工人休息、落腳的窮街，房子舊、人也窮。這個說法從西雅圖傳到別的城市，木…更多收起
可以想成一條把木頭拖下山的舊路。路的盡頭是伐木工人休息、落腳的窮街，房子舊、人也窮。這個說法從西雅圖傳到別的城市，木材業不見了，名字留下來，變成「城裡最破的一區」。再往前一步，它連地圖都離開了：說一個人 on skid row，就是把那條街的樣子搬到他的人生上，指他整個生活滑到了底。From the word’s history
Wiktionary derives skid row from skid road, the road along which logs were dragged; in 1852 skid road was applied to the loggers' slum in Seattle, and the variant skid row later came to mean a district frequented by alcoholics and hobos even where there was no lumber industry.
Wiktionary 說 skid row 來自 skid road，也就是拖木頭的那條路。一八五二年，skid road 被用來指西雅圖伐木工人聚集的貧民區；後來變體 skid row 擴散開來，連沒有木材業的城市也用它指那種街區。名字裡的「滑下去」就這樣一路留著。
Wiktionary entry 'skid row' (packet source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1250756426)
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noun · C1
A poor, run-down part of a city, full of old buildings in bad condition, where people with very little money and nowhere to live spend their time, and which is often talked about together with heavy drinking. Many readers hear the phrase as a put-down of the people who live there.
破敗貧民街區
noun · C1
Written with capital letters, Skid Row is the name of one particular district in several North American cities. The best known is in downtown Los Angeles, and there are others in Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Anchorage, New York (also called the Bowery) and Vancouver (also called the DTES or East Hastings).
（大寫）特定街區名