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小词详解 | slough
slough 英 [slʌf , slaʊ] 美 [slʌf , sluː]
He was estranged from his wife, splitting from his management and trying to slough off rock-star excess.
他和妻子分居,与经纪人分道扬镳,试图摆脱摇滚明星的颓靡生活。
——《经济学人》The problem for those of us hoping to use exercise to slough off fat is that most current calculations about exercise and weight loss assume that metabolism remains unchanged or is revved by exercise.
对于想要通过锻炼摆脱身上赘肉的我们来说,问题在于,当下通用的大多数锻炼与减重计算公式假设新陈代谢率是一成不变的,或者可以通过运动加以提升。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 脱落或去除(一层死皮)
蛇定期蜕皮,并囫囵吞下食物。
Snakes slough their skin regularly and engulf their food whole.我的双腿被尖刺擦破了。现在坏死组织正在慢慢地结痂脱落。
My legs were excoriated by the prickles. Now the dead tissue is sloughing slowly.
通过磨砂膏去除死皮细胞。它不会磨痛你的皮肤。
Slough off dead skin cells by using a facial scrub. It won't chafe your skin.总统今年已经不是第一次被人指责态度暧昧了。他不该逃避自己的责任。并且责任也不是那么容易推卸的。
It's not the first time this year that the president has been accused of straddling an issue. He should not duck out of his responsibilities. And responsibilities are not sloughed off so easily.
他们想出了一个办法来应对环境保护方面一些目前被忽视的问题。
They contrived a way to handle some of the aspects of environmental protection that are currently being sloughed over.
废弃原始的习俗和信仰会给社会带来巨大益处。
Casting off the slough of primitive ways and beliefs would be an enormous boon to the society.他改掉了一种很坏的习气。他曾是个巧言令色的说谎高手。
He has risen from a deplorable slough. He used to be a plausible liar.
这个代孕妈妈似乎深陷于这种自怜自艾的悲伤状态,无法自拔。
The surrogate mother seems unable to pull herself out of this deep slough of self-pity.
现在将他们从绝望的深渊中拯救出来的任务变得漫长而艰巨。
Now the task of saving them from the slough of despond becomes an epic.
她穿着高跟鞋一步三晃地跟在他后面走,差点陷入沼泽地的一条深沟。
She teetered after him in her high-heeled shoes and got nearly sloughed up in a marsh ditch.
There are shadows enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre or a frog.
这里已暗如地狱,污泥成塘,垂死者不知他将变成鬼还是变成癞蛤蟆。
discard: get rid of (someone or something) as no longer useful or desirable shed: (of a reptile, insect, etc.) allow (its skin or shell) to come off, to be replaced by another one that has grown underneath scrap: discard or remove from service (a retired, old, or inoperative vehicle, vessel, or machine), especially so as to convert it to scrap metal