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taper

/ˈteɪpɚ/ 动词 C2

中文: 逐渐变细、逐渐减少

  1. To make thinner or narrower at one end. (transitive)
  2. To become thinner or narrower at one end. (intransitive)
  3. To diminish gradually.
  4. To tighten monetary policy. (intransitive)

He/she/it tapers · 过去式 tapered · 过去分词 tapered · -ing形式 tapering

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动词形式

原形
taper
He/she/it
tapers
过去式
tapered
过去分词
tapered
-ing形式
tapering

来自图书馆

A small taper on the edge of the table shed a feeble light which sufficed to show me that he was fully dressed.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第9页 · B2
From this he took a paper, and returning to his seat he flattened it out beside the taper on the edge of the table, and began to study it with minute attention.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第9页 · B2
The taper was still on the table, and by its light I glanced to see what the paper was which Brunton had taken from the bureau.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第10页 · B2
We left her standing upon the thin peninsula of firm, peaty soil which tapered out into the widespread bog.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第199页 · C1

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