taper
taper 英 [ˈteɪpə(r)] 美 [ˈtepɚ]
n. 细蜡烛，烛芯；逐渐变弱；锥形物 vi. 逐渐减少；逐渐变弱 vt. 逐渐减少；使成锥形
进行时:tapering 过去式:tapered 过去分词:tapered 第三人称单数:tapers 名词复数:tapers
- To taper is to gradually grow smaller or more narrow or less intense. Taper is often used with the word "off." Part of the power of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is how the two walls appear to taper off into infinity.
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- n. 细蜡烛，烛芯；逐渐变弱；锥形物
- vi. 逐渐减少；逐渐变弱
- vt. 逐渐减少；使成锥形
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1. Columns taper and tilt inward, lending a certain lightness to the massive stone structure.
圆柱逐渐变细，向内倾斜，给这巨石结构带来几分轻巧的感觉。
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2. Talk to your doctor about how to gradually taper the dose. Otherwise, you could experience very serious complications such as seizures.
向您的医生咨询一下如何逐渐减少药量，否则，您会经历很严重的并发症，如癫痫。
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3. Beijing will continue buying Su-30s, but that will taper off as it develops its own capabilities through reverse engineering and indigenous development.
北京将继续购买苏-30战机，但是由于其自身研发及反工程能力的成熟购买量将逐渐减少。
- taper (n.) Old English tapur, taper "candle, lamp-wick," not found outside English, possibly a dissimilated borrowing from Latin papyrus (see papyrus), which was used in Medieval Latin and some Romance languages for "wick of a candle" (such as Italian papijo "wick"), because these often were made from the pith of papyrus. Compare also German kerze "candle," from Old High German charza, from Latin charta, from Greek khartes "papyrus, roll made from papyrus, wick made from pith of papyrus."
- taper (v.) 1580s, "shoot up like a flame or spire," via an obsolete adjective taper, from taper (n.), on the notion of the converging form of the flame of a candle. Sense of "become slender, gradually grow less in size, force, etc." first recorded c. 1600. Transitive sense from 1670s. Related: Tapered; tapering.
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