Sloughname/slaʊ/

• 1

  A town in east Berkshire, England (formerly Buckinghamshire), close to Heathrow Airport.

• 2

  A unitary authority and borough of Berkshire, the Slough Borough Council.

sloughnoun詞源 1/slʌf/

• 1

  The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.

  • That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
  • And without more ado she stood up and shook the white wrappings from her, and came forth shining and splendid like some glittering snake when she has cast her slough; ay, and fixed her wonderful eyes upon me - more deadly than any Basilisk's - and pierced me through and through with their beauty, and sent her light laugh ringing through the air like chimes of silver bells.
• 2

  Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.

  • This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.

sloughverb詞源 1/slʌf/

• 1

  To shed skin or outer layers.

  • This skin is being sloughed.
  • Snakes slough their skin periodically.
• 2

  To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.

  • A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
  • The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]
• 3

  card-gamesgamesTo discard.

  • East sloughed a heart.
• 4

  slangTo commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.

sloughnoun詞源 2/slaʊ/

• 1

  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.
  • Notwithstanding this discrepancy, however, and though, taught by experience, I hastened to agree with her that the secret of her birth was not likely to be discovered in a moment, nor by so simple a process as the journey to Norwich, which I had been going to suggest, it was natural that we should often revert to the subject, and to her pretensions, and the hardship of her lot: and my curiosity and questions giving a fillip to her memory, scarcely a day passed but she recovered some new detail from the past; as at one time a service of gold-plate which she perfectly remembered she had seen on her father's sideboard; and at another time an accident that had befell her in her childhood, through her father's coach and six horses being overturned in a slough.
• 2

  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.

  • We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough.
  • At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.
• 3

  A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.

  • The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing.
• 4

  A state of depression.

  • John is in a slough.
• 5

  A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.

  • 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.