| 释义 |
slope
I. \ˈslōp\ adverb
Etymology: Middle English
archaic : in a sloping manner : aslant, obliquely
II. adjective
: slanting, sloping
< stagger on the slope decks — Alfred Tennyson >
— often used in combination
< slope-edged >
< slope-sided >
III. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
intransitive verb
1. : to move in or take an oblique direction : advance in or form a slanting line or course
< wide golden fans of light sloped down the canyons — Katharine N. Burt >
2. : to incline from the horizontal or vertical : lie or fall in a slanting plane
< the bank sloped gently down to the water's edge — W.F.Davis >
3. : go, travel, walk
< renounces her position and her inheritance, and slopes off into the night — Wolcott Gibbs >
< pack and slope out for cow country — C.T.Jackson >
< eight dusty, hungry men sloped into the farm kitchen — Ronald Duncan >
transitive verb
1.
a. : to cause to incline or slant : give a slanting position or direction to : bend
< the most obvious method of fitting a pattern to the body is to slope or curve seam lines along body curves — Evelyn A. Mansfield >
b. : to carry or place (a weapon) in a sloping position
2. : to form or make with a slanting shape or surface
< the same man will slope his margin at one time to the right, at another time to the left — Stephen Paget >
IV. noun
(-s)
1.
a. : ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon : a natural or artificial incline (as a hillside or terrace) : acclivity, declivity
< steep submarine slopes and steep-sided submarine canyons — F.P.Shepard >
b. : a course on an open hillside prepared and graded for skiing — called also trail
2. : upward or downward slant or inclination : degree or extent of deviation from the horizontal or perpendicular
< the mountains reach 15,000 feet or higher, the average slope of the flanking ranges being 60 degrees — Francis Kingdon-Ward >
3. : the part of a continent descending toward and draining to a particular ocean
< the Pacific slope >
4. : slant 2
5.
a. : the trigonometric tangent of the angle made by a straight line with the x-axis
b. : the derivative of a dependent variable y with respect to the independent variable x
6. : an inclined mine shaft; especially : the main incline in a colliery
V. noun
: the slope of the line tangent to a plane curve at a point |