| 单词 | slough |
| 释义 | slough I. 1. a. < walk up steep rises in the road or help rescue horses stalled in a slough — American Guide Series: New Jersey > b. also slew or slue (1) < Indians are still living in primitive palm-thatched huts in the sloughs of the Everglades — Merrill Folsom > (2) < thousands of sloughs and potholes went dry — I.N.Gabrielson > c. also slew or slue (1) < lakes so close together and so intricately connected by rivers and sloughs that they may almost be called continuous — Bernard DeVoto > (2) < a narrow tidal slough, over three miles long — U.S. Board on Geographical Names Decisions > 2. obsolete 3. < one of those tireless organizers who come to the rescue of doddering lodges and … bring them out of their sloughs when all hope is gone — C.W.Ferguson > < high hopes ended in such a slough of frustration, paralysis, and bitterness — W.W.Kaufmann > < music has just kept her nose above the slough of realism, romance, and melodrama — Clive Bell > < the sooty slough that submerges so many factory towns — American Guide Series: Vermont > < a slough of self-distrust > < a slough of mediocrity > II. transitive verb 1. 2. slang intransitive verb < lumberjacks sloughing through swampy lowlands — D.G.Hoffman > III. 1. 2. 3. < when shall this slough of sense be cast — A.E.Housman > < the book is … necessarily a study in sociology, concerning itself with the struggles of a new order in casting off the slough of the old — Times Literary Supplement > 4. chiefly dialect a. b. < the slough on a fruit > 5. 6. IV. intransitive verb 1. a. < a snake skin sloughs > < the skin of my hand and forearm sloughed in patches — J.M.Savidge > < his clothes hung in rags, and some of them had sloughed off — Edison Marshall > b. < the snake sloughs annually > c. (1) < a sloughing ulcer > < the dead tissue sloughs slowly > < a sloughing of the colon > — often used with off (2) < a filter used in sewage disposal sloughs > 2. a. < fragments of rock slough from the sides of a mine working or drill hole > < the track had disappeared with the sloughing of the surface rock — Francis Kingdon-Ward > < a worn stone building with stucco sloughing from its face > < stream banks that have a tendency to slough at high-water level — Carpentry > b. < trade sloughs off after Christmas > 3. < yarn sloughs > — usually used with off transitive verb 1. a. < slough dead tissue > < many of the teeth are supported by soft tissue only; and several of them have been sloughed — E.C.Stafne > < a naked tired dark man, sloughing water off his thighs — Douglas Newton > b. < sloughed their knapsacks — H.M.Robinson > — usually used with off < sloughed off the unimportant verbiage — P.D.Leedy > < the tendency in furniture … to slough off many of its former crude and ungraceful characteristics — W.R.Storey > < author has sloughed off most of her more irritating sentimentalities — Times Literary Supplement > < enlarged his understanding of religion by sloughing off most of the cosmological and theological lore associated with it — P.L.Holmer > 2. < the ulcer sloughed away the breast > 3. Synonyms: see discard V. variant of slue VI. slang |
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