sloping [
'sləʊpiŋ]
a. 成斜坡的, 倾斜的
- An upper section, often with a sloping floor, projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater or an auditorium to provide additional seating.
边座,楼座剧院或大礼堂中为了增加座席,而从后面或侧墙突出的具有倾斜地板的上面部分 - An upper, sloping gallery with seats for spectators, as in a theater or an operating room.
阶梯式座位区有为观众设置的阶梯式座位的房间,如剧院和外科手术室
sloping[ adj ]- having an oblique or slanted direction
<adj.all>
- having a slanting form or direction
<adj.all>
an area of gently sloping hills
a room with a sloping ceiling
Slope \Slope\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sloped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sloping}.]
To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting
direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant; as,
to slope the ground in a garden; to slope a piece of cloth in
cutting a garment.
Sloping \Slop"ing\, a.
Inclining or inclined from the plane of the horizon, or from
a horizontal or other right line; oblique; declivous;
slanting. -- {Slop"ing*ly}, adv.
The sloping land recedes into the clouds. --Cowper.
- The accident occurred in an uncovered, concrete-lined pit with one sloping side allowing waste to slide to the bottom.
- Awaiting them on top was a sloping granite summit with a stark, windswept landscape considered one of the most beautiful spots in the world.
- If the prosecutors who charged the book with obscenity are to be believed, this sloping quarter of 'boarding schools, churches and big derelict mansions' was the birthplace of modern adultery.
- The APVs, expected by GM officials to mount a serious challenge to Chrysler's minivans, afford an awkward forward view because of their steeply sloping noses.
- These are known as shield volcanoes because of their gently sloping contours.
- They bat on a sloping surface of stubs, divots and grasses well-known to connoisseurs of set-aside.
- The stage - a triangular platform free of the usual proscenium constrictions - was dominated by a pair of expressionist panels, decorated with three Chinese riddle-motifs and flanked by a sloping rubbish-dump of masks and theatrical accessories.
- At the gravesite, a few yards down a sloping yard from Ouko's hilltop home, Moi was surrounded by some 200 police, their rifles pointing out toward the crowd.
- In fact, the tall and lanky politician with sloping posture and a plaintive voice is fond of saying he is "not presidential." But his long career in politics belies that self-portrait.
- I drove south to the sea at Agia Ana, past sloping fields dotted with windmills and cactus and ablaze with a spring carpet of wind-whipped daisies and poppies.
- It was digital, with sloping bits of bright blue indicating the oil pressure and remaining fuel.
- Yet because of the hatchback's sloping lid, the taller items I carried always had to be placed up front, behind the seats, which also was the hardest spot to get at.
- The trend caught on as the larger state-owned vineyards followed suit. Gently sloping smoky grey bottles or odalisque flasks with elongated necks make a beautiful addition to any wine cellar or dinner-table.
- Slantboard/Huddle (1961), in which they clamber up a sloping board or over each other, is possibly more fun to do than it is to watch.