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slumgullion

/ˌslʌmˈɡʌliən/

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noun

大杂烩，乱炖.

A stew of meat and vegetables.

Examples :

"After a long day of camping, the hikers were grateful for the hearty slumgullion that warmed them up. "

经过漫长一天的露营后，徒步旅行者们很感激那碗热腾腾的肉菜大杂烩，让他们的身体都暖和了起来。

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noun

淡而无味的饮料，劣质饮料

A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea.

Examples :

"My grandmother always makes slumgullion with the leftover coffee grounds, so it's really weak and watery. "

我奶奶总是用剩下的咖啡渣煮淡而无味的咖啡，所以煮出来的咖啡总是很淡很稀。

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noun

矿泥，矿渣。

A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.

Examples :

"After a long day of washing gravel, the mining sluice was filled with a thick, reddish slumgullion. "

经过一整天淘洗砂砾后，淘金槽里堆满了厚厚的、红色的矿泥和矿渣。

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noun

大杂烩，混合物

A mixture of unrelated things, a jumble or hodgepodge.

Examples :

"The lost and found box at school was a slumgullion of mismatched socks, forgotten lunchboxes, and stray toys. "

学校失物招领箱里简直是个大杂烩，装着不成对的袜子、被遗忘的饭盒和各种各样的玩具。

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noun

鲸油残渣，黏糊糊的东西

A sperm whaleman's term, roughly equivalent to the right whaleman's "gurry" which, according to Herman Melville, "designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or Right Whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan."(Melville 323) Derivation for this term likely originates with the word "slobgollion" which is, according to Melville's Moby Dick, "an appellation original with the whaleman, and even so is the nature of the substance. It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting. I hold it to be the wondrously thin, ruptured Membranes of the case, coalescing." (Melville 323)

Examples :

"After a long day of processing whale blubber, the deckhands were covered in slumgullion. "

经过一整天处理鲸脂后，水手们身上都沾满了鲸油残渣，黏糊糊的东西。

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