steepen

verb

1. （使）变陡
   to become or to make sth become steeper
   1. After a mile, the slope steepened.
      过了一英里后，山坡变陡了。

1. VERB 变得陡峭;变得陡直
   If a slope or an angle steepens, it becomes steeper.
   1. The road steepened and then levelled out suddenly.
      路变得陡直起来，然后又突然变平坦了。

1. The road steepened and then levelled out suddenly.
   路变得陡直起来，然后又突然变平坦了。
2. As we got nearer to the mountains, the road began to steepen.
   当我们接近山区时，路开始变陡了。
3. Then the effect is to steepen the flanks of the pulse spectrum.
   因此在效果上是加大了脉冲谱翼部的陡度。
4. Central banks could raise short-term interest rates or they could steepen the yield curve by selling longer-dated assets from their balance-sheets.
   央行可以选择上调短期利率，或者抛售长期资产以实现债券收益率曲线陡峭化。
5. Foreign investors would demand higher returns for holding US assets, causing bond yields to steepen.
   外国投资者将为所持美国资产要求更高的回报，这将导致债券收益率曲线变得陡峭起来。
6. China is now balancing the need to deleverage and ease its economic growth to stop certain sectors, such as property, from overheating, without causing the slowdown in manufacturing to steepen.
   中国需要去杠杆化并放缓经济增长步伐以防某些产业（如房地产）过热，但又要避免加剧制造业的放缓。
7. If the yield curve is positive sloping it will steepen as the longer yields move up more than the shorter ones.
   倒挂的收益率曲线则是从左向右下滑，反映短期收益率高于长期收益率的异常情况。
8. Self-steepen influence the gain of Stocks and anti-Stokes light to different extent.
   自陡峭效应使斯托克斯和反斯托克斯光的增益大小不一样。

verb

1. make steeper
   1. The landslides have steepened the mountain sides

2. become steeper
   1. The mountain side has steepened