slough 的定义
- 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.
slough 近义词
swamp
shed
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- 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.