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
- 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。 - Sales are expected to taper off after the year-end holiday season.
年底节日过后，预计商店的销售额就会逐渐减少。 - 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。 - Financial aids generally taper off after the first year of college.
助学金通常在大学一年级之后逐渐减少。 - Talk that it would taper off its bond purchases, which kept US rates low and encouraged money to go overseas, last summer led to a sell-off in emerging markets.
美联储对债券的收购将美国利率保持在低点，并鼓励资金流向海外。而去年夏天，有关美联储会逐步缩减这一收购力度的说法，曾导致新兴市场出现一轮抛售行为。 - I hope you can taper off smoking.
我希望你能逐渐地减少吸烟量。 - Either way, those enviable levels of credit growth are likely to taper off soon.
不管是哪种情况，那些令人羡慕的信贷增长水平都可能会很快消失。 - So, after about a month of consistent rewards for a new behavior, taper off. Instead, reward yourself or others spontaneously!
所以，对一种新的行为举止进行了大约一个月的奖励后，就停下来，而只在需要的时候才奖励自己和别的人。 - 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 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。