slough

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /slʌf/    美 /slʌf/|/slɐf/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. countable,uncountable
    — That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
  2. A marshy or muddy area.
    — "That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough.
  3. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. countable,uncountable
    — This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
  4. A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees. Northern-US,Southern-US
    — We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
  5. A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide. US,Western
    — The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
  6. A state of depression.
    — John is in a slough.
  7. A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes. Canadian-Prairies
    — Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems.
动词 v.
  1. To shed skin or outer layers. transitive
    — This skin is being sloughed.
  2. To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do. intransitive
    — A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
  3. To discard. transitive
    — East sloughed a heart.
  4. To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. US,Western,intransitive,slang

词形变化

sloughs plural sluff alternative sloughs present,singular,third-person sloughing participle,present sloughed participle,past sloughed past sluff alternative sloughs plural slue alternative slew alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
sloughable sloughage slough off unsloughed unsloughing Sloman sloughgrass slough hay sloughland slough of despond slough shark slough thistle sloughy

词源

词源 1
From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).
Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).
词源 2
From Middle English slough (“muddy place; swamp; mire”), Old English slōh, probably from Proto-Germanic *slōhaz.
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