slough
slough 英 [slaʊ] 美 [slaʊ]
n. 蜕下的皮（或壳）；绝境；[地理] 泥沼；[外科] 腐肉 vt. 使陷入泥沼；抛弃 vi. 蜕皮；脱落；在泥浆中跋涉
进行时:sloughing 过去式:sloughed 过去分词:sloughed 第三人称单数:sloughs 名词复数:sloughs
- When you slough, you get rid of the rough. To slough is to remove an outer layer, like filing dry skin from feet. You can slough away emotions too, like the heebie-jeebies you get thinking about dead skin from people's feet. Ew.
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- n. 蜕下的皮（或壳）；绝境；[地理] 泥沼；[外科] 腐肉
- vt. 使陷入泥沼；抛弃
- vi. 蜕皮；脱落；在泥浆中跋涉
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1. Some of animals slough, such as snake, cicada, and so on.
有些动物会蜕皮，例如蛇、蝉等。
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2. William Herschel, who discovered Uranus, built a reflecting telescope in slough, England, that was 40 feet in length, the largest of its day.
天王星的发现者威廉·赫歇尔，曾在英格兰的斯劳（Slough）建造了一台长达40英尺（12米）的反射望远镜。
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3. Before the findings, most astronomers had argued that gigantic stars in nearby galaxies slough off much of their mass before dying out, precluding a pair-instability supernova.
这些发现之前，多数的天文学家一直在争论银河系附近的巨星在其消亡前，抛弃了其大部分质量，这样就无法形成对不稳定超新星。
- slough (n.1) "muddy place," Old English sloh "soft, muddy ground," of uncertain origin. Compare Middle Low German sloch "muddy place," Middle High German sluoche "ditch." Figurative use (of moral sunkenness or Bunyan's "Slough of Despond," 1678) attested from mid-13c.
- slough (n.2) "cast-off skin" (of a snake or other animal), early 14c., slughe, slouh, probably related to Old Saxon sluk "skin of a snake," Middle High German sluch "snakeskin, wine-skin," Middle Low German slu "husk, peel, skin," German Schlauch "wine-skin;" from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE root *sleug- "to glide."
- slough (v.) "to cast off" (as the skin of a snake or other animal), 1720, originally of diseased tissue, from Middle English noun slough "shed skin of a snake" (see slough (n.)). Related: Sloughed; sloughing.
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