slough
滑坡,沼泽地,蜕皮,沼泽
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Definitions
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- : an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamplike region.
- : a hole full of mire, as in a road.
- : Also slew, slue .Northern U.S. and Canadian. a marshy or reedy pool, pond, inlet, backwater, or the like.
- : a condition of degradation, despair, or helplessness.
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Examples
A few years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, it’s still strictly segregated between Catholics and Protestants and stuck in an economic slough so old it’s covered in mold.
We lived on the Old West Side near Lake Sacajawea, which was nothing more than a dredged-out slough full of carp and muskrat.
In Sydney it was across the Harbor, in London it was outside the city in Basildon or Slough.
He forces a patient to submit to radiation therapy, even as it makes her skin slough off her body.
A week after the inauguration, his wife, Lady Bird, watched with worry as a “slough of despond” surrounded her husband.
They would get weird diseases where the flesh on their faces would slough off.
He began to be afraid lest he might be overwhelmed in this slough of a petty, useless, and vicious existence.
Because he had sunk into the slough of despond, he would be heedless of the mud that gathered on his garments.
"It sounds pretty bad," admitted Heavy, coming out of her momentary slough of despond.
She had taken us up in her great strong arms and carried us over the slough of difficulty, turning the whole tide in our favor.
The most subtly painted serpent casts ultimately its slough.