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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's a bad habit he should slough off.
  这是他应该戒除的一个坏习惯。
• Slough off unimportant verbiage.
  删除无关紧要的空话。
• 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。
• First of all, it has promoted its breaking away from outdated traditional modes of thought of law in the modem Chinese merchants, and has promoted China's modem commercial common law to slough off.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；
• 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。