But he would not go back neither. Till, one sunshiny morning, nobody ever knew how, he ventured, and so got over. But the fact of the matter is," said the shrewd- headed guide, "Mr. Fearing had, I think, a slough of despond in his own mind; and a slough that he carried everywhere with him." Yes, that was it. Greatheart in that has hit the nail on the head. With one happy stroke he has given us the whole secret of poor Mr. Fearing's life-long trouble. Just so; it was the slough in himself that so kept poor Mr.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
Let him still struggle out at the side of the slough farthest from his own house, and to- night, who can tell, Help may come and give that man his hand. When the Slough of Despond is drained, and its bottom laid bare, what a find of all kinds of precious treasures shall be laid bare! Will you be able to lay claim to any of it when the long-lost treasure-trove is distributed by command of the King to its rightful owners?英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-1》
All of that purity and love might have gone into George's life--before it fell into the slough. But she was going now to take it out of the slough. There was a merchant and his wife from Geneva in the carriage with their little boy, a pretty child of five. Frances played and joked with him. "Has madam also a son?" his mother asked civilly. She said yes, and presently added, "My son has now a great trouble, but I am going to relieve him of it."
The woman, startled, stared at her. "Is it not right for me to rid him of it?" she demanded loudly. "Mais oui, certainement" said the Swiss.英文原著 · 《Frances Waldeaux》
MARY DOUL -- [despondingly.] -- That's the truth, surely; and we'd have a right to be gone, if it's a long way itself, as I've heard them say, where you do have to be walking with a slough of wet on the one side and a slough of wet on the other, and you going a stony path with a north wind blowing behind. [They go out.]英文原著 · 《The Well of the Saints》
Granville, by insensible degrees, overdone with work, bereft of conjugal consolations, and weary of a world in which he wandered alone, by the time he was two-and-thirty had sunk into the Slough of Despond. He hated life. Having too lofty a notion of the responsibilities imposed on him by his position to set the example of a dissipated life, he tried to deaden feeling by hard study, and began a great book on Law.英文原著 · 《A Second Home》
Another of his biographers in this connection wrote of him thus: 'Our Lord Mayor parted his religion betwixt his conscience and his purse, and he went to church not to serve God, but to please the king. The face of the law made him wear the mask of the Gospel, which he used not as a means to save his soul, but his charges.' Such, in a short word, was this 'sottish man' who crossed over the field to meet with our pilgrim when he was walking solitary by himself after his escape from the slough.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-1》
"Sloughing off of your endometrial tissue." Yeah, "Which typically lasts between two and...美剧 · 《Modern Family》
I, myself, prefer to have my excess epithelial cells Slough off naturally, but I d't condemn Those who seek to accelerate the process.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》