slough ... off

slough off

• • (蛇等)蜕(皮)；脱落：

    A cicada sloughs off its old skin every spring.

    蝉每年春天蜕皮。

  • 丢弃，抛弃；摆脱：

    A hope could slough off her sadness.

    希望可以使她摆脱悲伤。

  • 擦去；减少：

    He sloughed the sweat off his brow.

    他擦去了额上的汗水。

• stress difference
• acinitis
• nonproficient
• run sb out of town
• Saccharomycetales
• schlubs
• spring to sb's defence
• steam accumulators
• gyre
• till the last
• Bohr atom
• come up to
• alkalipenia
• bibliolatrous
• on one's knee
• pitch something up （或pitch up）
• processor status word
• electronic data processing
• labour forces
• have an abhorrence of
• put little value upon
• Dutch leaf
• turn a cold shoulder upon someone
• drag away
• shatters
• Black Russian
• laugh on the other side of 或 face
• rhomboidal
• parabolic geometry
• somnambulators
• antiknocking
• eutrophies
• Christocentrism
• mittys
• Neo-platonic
• stratigraphic
• the company sb keeps
• bronchiectasis
• chunter
• marduks
• have plenty of brains
• woman's rights
• overelaborate
• jingle bell
• grubstaking
• summand
• jam the brake(s) on
• clobbered
• vegetation zones
• in one's wildest dreams
• esterified
• Commonwealth preference
• bobbin and fly frame
• exchange diffusion
• out of ... skull
• popularity
• second to none
• promenaders
• glocalizing
• pec
• fold sth into sth
• be in raptures over
• faintishness
• bring someone face to face with someone
• gutter press
• Q signal
• butter up
• obscurities
• embrasure
• Niemöller, Martin
• serviceman
• amphistomous
• sempstresses
• one's day is gone
• filtrability
• King Hong
• micronutrients
• meritorious
• escalation dominance
• inequivalves
• land freeze
• smilodon
• normalizable
• noodleheads
• lieutenant colonel
• Lame Duck Amendment
• execute
• functor
• garage sale
• nipples
• back office
• manifested
• Wallace, Sir William
• locutoria
• Spit it out!
• fly into a fury
• West Germany
• electioneerer
• cold front
• hard-boiled egg