slough
n. 泥沼, 沼泽, 蜕下的皮, 腐肉 vt. 使陷入泥沼, 使沉沦, 脱落, 抛弃 vi. 在泥浆中跋涉, 蜕皮, 脱落
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The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
可数 不可数That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
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Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
可数 不可数This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
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A marshy or muddy area.
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A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
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A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
美国The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
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A state of depression.
John is in a slough.
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A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
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To shed skin or outer layers.
及物This skin is being sloughed.
Snakes slough their skin periodically.
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To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
不及物A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.
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To discard.
及物 游戏East sloughed a heart.
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To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
美国 不及物 俚语
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From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)). Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).
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