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- a swamp沼泽。
1.1
- 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。
1.2
- N. Amer. a muddy side channel or inlet〈北美〉泥沼水道（或小水湾）。
派生词
sloughy
adjective词源
Old English slōh, slō(g), of unknown origin.
with obj.
1- (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
figurative 〈喻〉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的形象。
1.1
- no obj.
slough off
(of dead skin) drop off; be shed.（死皮）脱落。
1.2
- no obj.
slough away/down
(of soil or rock) collapse or slide into a hole or depression（土壤, 岩石）倒塌, 坍落。
mass noun
- the dropping off of dead tissue from living flesh（坏死组织）脱落：
the drugs can cause blistering and slough.
这些药品能使皮肤长水疱和死皮脱落。
派生词
sloughy
adjective词源
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.