slough off

英 [slʌf ɒf]

美 [slʌf ɔːf]

（植物）落叶; （动物）蜕皮

柯林斯词典

• → see:slough
• PHRASAL VERB 放弃;抛弃
  If youslough offsomething that you no longer want or need, you get rid of it.
  1. She tried hard to slough off her old personality...
     她努力告别从前的个性。
  2. The nation states of Eastern Europe finally sloughed off their totalitarian regimes.
     东欧民族国家最终抛弃了极权统治。

英英释义

verb

• separate from surrounding living tissue, as in an abortion
• discard as undesirable
  1. the candidate sloughed off his former campaign workers

双语例句

• The cicada has to slough off its skin before it can fly.
  蝉在会飞以前必须蜕去皮。
• She did so reluctantly not wanted to slough off her responsibility on others.
  她很不情愿地这么做了，她并不想把她的责任推在其他人身上。
• Starting Monday, women who want to slough off dead skin, clear their pores or roll back the years can submit themselves to five minutes of molluscs.
  从周一上午起，凡是想去除死皮、清洁毛孔或重现青春的女性。都能来这里报名参加五分钟的蜗牛美容。
• So you gotta make sure that they don't slough off.
  你们必须保证他们不会被抛弃。
• A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars.
  一种高度传染的病毒性疾病，通常发烧皮肤上生斑。
• Snakes slough off their skins once a year.
  蛇每年蜕皮一次。
• It is possible that the stem cells claimed to be in menstrual fluid are endometrial stem cells that slough off each month during menstruation.
  在月经液中的干细胞可能就是每次月经时脱落的子宫内膜干细胞。
• But sometimes, you need to learn to slough off, and then you may get progress.
  人要成功一定要有永不放弃的精神，但你学会放弃的时候，你才开始进步。
• It's time for us to slough off our tired old image.
  我们该丢掉原来疲惫不堪的旧形象了。
• He managed to slough off his drinking habit.
  他终於戒掉了酗酒的习惯。