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单词 slough
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Slough

/slaʊ/
/slaʊ/
  1. a large town to the west of London斯劳（伦敦以西的大城镇）

slough1

verb
/slʌf/
/slʌf/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they slough
/slʌf/
/slʌf/
he / she / it sloughs
/slʌfs/
/slʌfs/
past simple sloughed
/slʌft/
/slʌft/
past participle sloughed
/slʌft/
/slʌft/
-ing form sloughing
/ˈslʌfɪŋ/
/ˈslʌfɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
  1. to lose a layer of dead skin, etc.蜕（皮）；使脱落
    • slough something a snake sloughing its skin正在蜕皮的蛇
    • slough something off Slough off dead skin cells by using a facial scrub.用面部磨砂膏去除死皮。
    Word OriginMiddle 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.

slough2

noun
/slaʊ/
/sluː/, /slaʊ/
(literary)
  1. [singular] slough of misery, despair, etc. a state of being sad with no hope苦难的深渊；绝望的境地
    • She slid into a slough of self-pity.她陷入了自怜的泥潭。
  2. [countable] a very soft wet area of land泥沼；泥淖；沼泽
    • The battlefield was a slough of mud and corpses.战场上一片泥泞，尸横遍野。
    3. Word OriginOld English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin.
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