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 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。
• It's a bad habit he should slough off.
  这是他应该戒除的一个坏习惯。
• The cicada has to slough off its skin before it can fly.
  蝉在会飞以前必须蜕去皮。
• 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。
• While telling his tale, the narrator discards social mask, slough off false self, and cast aside restrictive gender-role assignment found in his investment in popular forms of language use and finally comes to a degree of self-realization.
  讲述过程中，叙述者通过各种流行形式的语言运用，摒弃了社会面具，抛弃了虚伪的自我，也摆脱了限制性的性别角色，最终达到自我实现。
• 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。
• The effectiveness excutive will slough off an activity before he starts on a new one.
  有效的管理者打算做一项新的业务，一定先删除一项原有业务。
• He managed to slough off his drinking habit.
  他终於戒掉了酗酒的习惯。
• Snakes slough off their skins once a year.
  蛇每年蜕皮一次。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。