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Slope English Meaning Slip Emerge Past Participle Slanting

正面 3458.slope
英 [sləʊp]美 [slop]

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释义:
n. 斜坡;倾斜;斜率;扛枪姿势vi. 倾斜;逃走vt. 倾斜;使倾斜;扛
例句:
1. He wonders why the digits on his calculator slope to the right.他不明白为什么他的计算器上面的数字向右倾斜。

1. 谐音“是楼坡”---是楼梯的那种斜坡、坡道。2. slip => *sl- "slip" => slip, slope, slant.
slope 斜坡,陡坡,山坡,坡地来自辅音丛 sl-,滑的,滑动的,词源同 slip,slide.引申比喻义斜坡,陡坡等。
slopeslope: [15] The noun slope did not emerge until the 17th century. Originally it was an adverb, short for the now defunct aslope. This is generally supposed to go back to an unrecorded Old English *āslopean, an adverbial use of the past participle of āslūpan ‘slip away’. Such a scenario would appear to fit in well with the colloquial slope off ‘leave’, but in fact this usage did not emerge until the early 19th century, in America.slope (n.)1610s, "inclination," from slope (v.). Meaning "an incline, a slant (of ground)" is from 1620s. Derogatory slang meaning "Oriental person" is attested from 1948.slope (v.)1590s, "go in an oblique direction," from earlier adjective meaning "slanting" (c. 1500), probably from Middle English aslope (adv.) "on the incline" (late 15c.), from Old English *aslopen, past participle of aslupan "to slip away," from a- "away" + slupan "to slip" (see sleeve). From 1709 as "to be in a slanting position;" transitive sense "place in a slanting position" is from c. 1600. Related: Sloped; sloping."

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