a swamp 沼泽 ■(figurative)a situation characterized by lack of progress or activity (喻)困境 the economic slough of the interwar years. 两次世界大战之间的经济困境。 ■(N. Amer.)a muddy side channel or inlet (北美)泥沼水道(或小水湾)
派生 sloughy adjective 语源
Old English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin
slough2 [slʌf] verb
[with obj.](of an animal, especially a snake, or a person) cast off or shed (an old skin or dead skin) (动物,尤指蛇、人)蜕皮;脱皮 a snake sloughs off its old skin. 蛇蜕掉旧皮。 he is concerned to slough off the country's bad environmental image. 他努力想甩掉国家的环境恶劣形象。 ■[no obj.](slough off)(of dead skin) drop off; be shed (死皮)脱落 ■[no obj.](slough away/down)(of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression (土地,岩石)倒塌,坍落
noun
[mass noun]the dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh (坏死组织)脱落 the drugs can cause blistering and slough. 这些药品能使水疱和死皮脱落。
派生 sloughy adjective 语源
Middle English (as a noun denoting a skin, especially the outer skin shed by a snake): perhaps related to Low German slu(we) 'husk, peel'. The verb dates from the early 18th cent