taper off
英 [ˈteɪpə(r) ɒf]
美 [ˈteɪpər ɔːf]
逐渐减少; 逐渐缩小
柯林斯词典
- → see:taper 2
英英释义
verb
- become smaller or less active
- Business tapered off
- end weakly
- The music just petered out--there was no proper ending
双语例句
- You'd better taper off the amount of time given to rest.
你最好逐渐地减少休息时间。 - The market has benefited from an$ 8,000 tax credit for first-time buyers and the Federal Reserve's purchase of mortgage-backed securities but the tax credit expires at the end of November, and the Fed is starting to taper off its purchases.
针对首次购房者的8000美元税收抵免，以及美联储买入按揭支持证券，令房地产市场得益，但税收抵免将在11年底失效，而美联储也开始逐渐停止购买行为。 - Those factors combined with the videogame industry's cycles ─ where sales taper off before a new game console is released ─ have hurt sales of new games, consoles and accessories.
这些因素加上视频游戏行业的周期因素（新的游戏机发布之前销售减弱）削弱了新的游戏、游戏机和配件的销售。 - These increases taper off after a time, though, unless they enter management.
然而，除非你能进入管理层，这样的增长在一定时间后就渐渐停滞了。 - With winter coming to Afghanistan's towering mountains, fighting could taper off as movement becomes difficult along the border with Pakistan.
随着冬季降临阿富汗的高山，在巴基斯坦边境的活动将变得困难，战斗也将逐渐减少。 - Taper the plug off a bit with a chisel so that it will sit into the hole.
用凿子把这塞子一头削尖点，使它能塞进孔里。 - The sleet began to taper off, and silence returned like a lost friend.
冰雹开始（begin）减弱，寂静像失赴的朋友再度归来。 - If you believe Malcolm Gladwell, then the curve will eventually taper off.
如果你相信马尔科姆o格拉威德尔的预言，那么这条曲线最终会递减直至消失。 - According to the evaluation criterion of velocity and mass flow rate, the gas dynamics performance of taper nozzle in kerf excels obviously than that of convergence nozzle. And with the increasing of stand off distance, at least two reasonable cutting scopes exist.
由速度和质量流率评价标准可发现，收敛型喷嘴切缝中气体的动力学性能都明显优于锥型喷嘴，且随着喷嘴工件距的变化，至少存在两个合理的切割区域范围。 - I hope you can taper off smoking.
我希望你能逐渐地减少吸烟量。