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词汇 slough
释义 slough
verb[ T ]
uk /slʌf/ us /slʌf/
biology
(of some animals) to have a layer of skin come off: (某些动物)蜕(皮)
Snakes slough their skin regularly.蛇定期蜕皮。
Synonyms
moultUK
shed
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Removing and getting rid of things
abandonment
banish
be scattered to the four windsidiom
bin
cast someone/something aside/away/off
dumping
eradication
eradication of something
erase
erasure
evacuate
evacuate someone from something
shed
shedding
shoo
shrug
shrug something off
sling
toss
turf

Phrasal verb


slough something off
slough
noun
uk /slaʊ/ us /sluː//slaʊ/

sloughnoun (SADNESS)


[ S ]literary
a mental state of deep sadness and no hope: 悲伤绝望
She seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.她似乎深陷于这种自怜自艾的悲伤状态,无法自拔。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sadness and regret
aw
be/weigh on your conscienceidiom
bitter
black dog
breastbeating
cry
doom and gloom
feel badidiom
gloominess
glumness
groan
guilt
melancholia
prick
prick someone's conscienceidiom
regretful
regretfully
remorse
repentant
wretchedness

sloughnoun (WET AREA)


[ C ]
an area of soft, wet land泥沼,泥淖;沼泽
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: wetland
bog
boggy
boreal forest
constructed wetland
fen
marsh
marshland
marshy
mire
miry
peat bog
peatland
quagmire
quicksand
reed bed
swamp
swampland
swampy
water meadow
wetland

Examples of slough


slough
The damaged tegument began to slough off in some regions.
Sadly, those individuals slough off the responsibility and are authoritarian in other, less wellmeaning ways.
Score as a '3' if there is any amount of slough present and necrotic tissue is absent.
Finally, detachment of biofilms through erosion and sloughing in drinking-water distribution systems needs to be quantified.
The herpetic lesions start as vesicles which rapidly slough to form shallow well demarcated ulcers which may become con-uent.
Farmers primary motive to adopt mulching is recognition that sloughing carries the risk of a permanent loss of cropland function.
The height-dependent mechanism produced flat biofilms that lacked sloughing events.
That meant, of course, that these early cells would later be sloughed off.
However, if released in slough, it may still present a risk of infection.
Detachment from biofilms in technical systems is caused by a combination of processes including abrasion, erosion, sloughing and predator grazing.
In the end, however, he finds it impossible to slough off the latter view when it comes to setting out the rules of conduct.
Autolysis of slough will also be expedited by occlusive dressings.
These sloughed identities remained, nonetheless, in one's physiological "memory," as habitual motor actions and as a presiding muscular sense, neither traumatic nor repressed.
The diarrhoeal stool consists of an inflammatory exudate, sloughed cells and cell debris, copious mucus from goblet cells, pus and blood.
The neighbor mechanism did not produce either a non-zero steady state or sloughing events.
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