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单词 steepen
释义
steepen
verb
uk
/ˈstiː.pən/us
/ˈstiː.pən/
[IorT]
tobecomesteeper, or to make something do this:
（使）变陡
Thetrailbeganto steepen near thetopof thehill.小路在接近山顶时开始变陡。
[I]
If something such as acoststeepens, itincreases:
（费用等）增加
Ourcostshave steepened since webeganthisproject.自从开始了这个项目，我们的费用就增加了。
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(Definition ofsteepenfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsteepen

steepen
The increased pressure resulting from rearmament steepened the decline.
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However, this is compensated by the narrowing of the clines, which reduces the width of the region over which neutral allele frequencies are steepened.
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At high intensities, the plasma density profile is steepened by light pressure to a fraction of a laser wavelength.
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By contrast, distal clinoforms (shelf break, distally steepened ramp settings) yield a much broader spectrum of profiles and are generally shorter and steeper.
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While the front steepens, the effect of frequency dispersion (or vertical acceleration) becomesincreasingly appreciable, which may lead to the development of undulations behind each crest.
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Next, the disturbance steepens or begins to tilt to one side.
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Addition of successively higher odd harmonics steepens the wings and reduces the amplitude of the fluctuations in between.
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The beds are quickly eroded, the cliff over steepened, and collapse follows due to the inability of the material to maintain very steep faces.
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The increased variance accelerates the response to selection, steepens the cline, and so further increases the variance.
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The 'bore', on the other hand, might evolve into a qualitatively similar realization even though it steepens with time.
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However, they would in any case not possess a steady dissipative structure, simply because they are linear and therefore have no nonlinear steepening to balance the spreading due to dissipation.
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One mechanism for steepening the response of an effector molecule is to require that more than one molecule bind to the target to induce a response.
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Although the disturbance steepens, it does so more slowly than in the absence of a varying background and the amplitudes of the evolving solitary waves are reduced.
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Thus, the trapping effects due to the density gap and the density steepening become weak.
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The wave form is found t o display both steepening and skewness.
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