sloping

基本解释

They lived on a sloping street where the houses press against one another, side by side, like children in a line holding hands.
他们住的街道在一个斜坡上，那儿的房子肩并肩一座紧挨一座，像是一横排拉着手的小孩子。
But if that ground is, indeed, sloping, it means that the wind (which tends to follow the ground when it is close to the surface) hits the blades of the turbines at an angle instead of face on.
但是，如果此处地面确实是倾斜的，这则意味着风（贴近地面吹向叶面）从一种角度吹向发电机叶片，而非正面对吹。
An upward-sloping yield curve, in which long-term interest rates are above short-term rates, is normal.
一般情况下，收益率曲线是向上倾斜的，并且长期收益率处于短期收益率上方。

So, according to the expectations theory augmented with liquidity preference-- This strongly upward-sloping term structure in 2003 would reflect two things.
所以,根据结合了流动性偏好的,预期理论,2003年期限结构中表现出的,强烈上扬趋势反映了两方面的因素
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Then the--so the term structure was downward-sloping until about two and a half years and then it was upward sloping.
期限结构线先向下倾斜,在到期期限过了两年半的时点后,才缓慢回升
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That was way fewer responses than I wanted. Let's try again; what's the name of this downward sloping line that I've just drawn?
没几个人回答啊,我再问一遍,这条向下倾斜的曲线叫什么
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There's the same aluminum edging around the 4.3-inch screen and the same sloping chin.
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A slope is the side of a mountain, hill, or valley.
A slope is a surface that is at an angle, so that one end is higher than the other.
If a surface slopes, it is at an angle, so that one end is higher than the other.
sloping
If something slopes, it leans to the right or to the left rather than being upright.
The slope of something is the angle at which it slopes.
slippery slope&rarrsee slippery