一、详细释义:


n.

斜坡,斜面 [C]


例句:

He exchanged high gear into low one when driving on a slope.

爬坡时,他将高速档换成低速档。


例句:

Let's slide down this grassy slope.

我们顺着草坡滑下去吧。


倾斜,坡度,斜率 [U,C]


例句:

The slope increases as you go up the curve.

上了弯道以后,路越来越陡。


例句:

The floor of the theater has a slope of four feet from the back seats to the front seats.

这戏院的地板从后排座位到前排座位有四英尺的倾斜。


v.

(使)倾斜;(使)有斜度 [I,T]


例句:

The bank sloped down sharply to the river.

河岸到河面的斜坡非常陡。


例句:

The garden sloped quite steeply.

花园的斜坡颇为陡峭。


溜走 [I]


例句:

Let's slope off somewhere quiet and have a drink.

我们悄悄溜到什么地方去喝上一杯。


例句:

She sloped off quietly on Saturday afternoon.

星期六下午,她脚底抹油,溜之大吉。


掮(枪)[T]


例句:

Slope arms!

枪上肩!


二、词义辨析:


tip,slope,tilt

这些动词均含“倾斜”之意。 tip指向一边倾斜或向上翻转、失去平衡或完全翻转过来。 slope指向上或向下渐渐倾斜的表面,多用于山、屋顶等缓缓倾斜。 tilt指有意识地或长时间地使物体处于倾斜状态。


三、相关短语:


continental slope

大陆坡,大陆斜坡


glide slope

滑翔道,滑翔斜率,下滑道,下滑角,下滑面


rising slope

上升斜率


四、参考例句:


Slope arms!

枪上肩!


Up slope and down dale they plodded.

上坡下谷,他们艰难跋涉。


Does your handwriting slope forward or backward?

你的书法向前斜还是向后斜?


A landing slope is for ski jumping.

着陆山坡是为障碍滑雪而准备的。


Let's slide down this grassy slope.

我们顺着草坡滑下去吧。


The sledge coasted down the slope.

雪橇沿着山坡向下滑行。


He slipped down the slippery slope.

他从溜滑的斜坡上滑落下来。


You should groom ski slope before a competition.

你应该在比赛前清扫一下滑雪坡道。


First, we need to climb the slope of denuclearization.

首先要爬无核化这个坡。


The slope increases as you go up the curve.

上了弯道以后,路越来越陡。