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

• Drilling operations of Jidong, Dagang and other oilfields in gulfs of Liaodong and Bohai inevitably meet a kind of formation consisting of pyroclastic rock being easy to slough off.
  在辽东湾、渤海湾及其邻近的冀东油田和大港油田东部的钻遇地层中存在易塌的火山岩地层。
• First of all, it has promoted its breaking away from outdated traditional modes of thought of law in the modem Chinese merchants, and has promoted China's modem commercial common law to slough off.
  首先，它推动了近代中国商人的法观念更新，促进了中国近代商事习惯法的嬗蜕；
• Snakes slough off their skins once a year.
  蛇每年蜕皮一次。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The cicada has to slough off its skin before it can fly.
  蝉在会飞以前必须蜕去皮。
• She can slough off a sadness and replace it by a hope.
  她能摈除悲伤而代之以希望。