taper off

1. → see: taper 2

1. Sales are expected to taper off after the year-end holiday season.
   年底节日过后，预计商店的销售额就会逐渐减少。
2. The sleet began to taper off, and silence returned like a lost friend.
   冰雹开始（begin）减弱，寂静像失赴的朋友再度归来。
3. These increases taper off after a time, though, unless they enter management.
   然而，除非你能进入管理层，这样的增长在一定时间后就渐渐停滞了。
4. If you believe Malcolm Gladwell, then the curve will eventually taper off.
   如果你相信马尔科姆o格拉威德尔的预言，那么这条曲线最终会递减直至消失。
5. Those factors combined with the videogame industry's cycles ─ where sales taper off before a new game console is released ─ have hurt sales of new games, consoles and accessories.
   这些因素加上视频游戏行业的周期因素（新的游戏机发布之前销售减弱）削弱了新的游戏、游戏机和配件的销售。
6. Financial aids generally taper off after the first year of college.
   助学金通常在大学一年级之后逐渐减少。
7. I hope you can taper off smoking.
   我希望你能逐渐地减少吸烟量。
8. At present, disassembly taper sleeve and joint are adopted at home, a section of hose or soft shaft is cut off for reassembly and continuing use.
   目前国内均采用拆卸锥套和接头，截去一段软管或软轴，重新装配继续使用。
9. Taper the plug off a bit with a chisel so that it will sit into the hole.
   用凿子把这塞子一头削尖点，使它能塞进孔里。
10. Retail spending has also been boosted by one-off subsidies Wuhan is one of several cities offering incentives to buy white goods and sales growth could yet taper off when these benefits are withdrawn.
    零售支出还受到了一次性补贴的提振武汉就是针对家电购买推出激励措施的几个城市之一。撤销这些补贴后，销售增长就可能逐渐停止。
11. You'd better taper off the amount of time given to rest.
    你最好逐渐地减少休息时间。
12. With winter coming to Afghanistan's towering mountains, fighting could taper off as movement becomes difficult along the border with Pakistan.
    随着冬季降临阿富汗的高山，在巴基斯坦边境的活动将变得困难，战斗也将逐渐减少。
13. Either way, those enviable levels of credit growth are likely to taper off soon.
    不管是哪种情况，那些令人羡慕的信贷增长水平都可能会很快消失。
14. Talk that it would taper off its bond purchases, which kept US rates low and encouraged money to go overseas, last summer led to a sell-off in emerging markets.
    美联储对债券的收购将美国利率保持在低点，并鼓励资金流向海外。而去年夏天，有关美联储会逐步缩减这一收购力度的说法，曾导致新兴市场出现一轮抛售行为。
15. In countries with a temperate climate, seasonal epidemics typically taper off in the spring and end before summer.
    在气候温和的国家，季节性流感通常在春季减弱，在夏季来临前结束。
16. The market has benefited from an$ 8,000 tax credit for first-time buyers and the Federal Reserve's purchase of mortgage-backed securities but the tax credit expires at the end of November, and the Fed is starting to taper off its purchases.
    针对首次购房者的8000美元税收抵免，以及美联储买入按揭支持证券，令房地产市场得益，但税收抵免将在11年底失效，而美联储也开始逐渐停止购买行为。
17. So, after about a month of consistent rewards for a new behavior, taper off. Instead, reward yourself or others spontaneously!
    所以，对一种新的行为举止进行了大约一个月的奖励后，就停下来，而只在需要的时候才奖励自己和别的人。
18. According to the evaluation criterion of velocity and mass flow rate, the gas dynamics performance of taper nozzle in kerf excels obviously than that of convergence nozzle. And with the increasing of stand off distance, at least two reasonable cutting scopes exist.
    由速度和质量流率评价标准可发现，收敛型喷嘴切缝中气体的动力学性能都明显优于锥型喷嘴，且随着喷嘴工件距的变化，至少存在两个合理的切割区域范围。

verb

1. become smaller or less active
   1. Business tapered off

2. end weakly
   1. The music just petered out--there was no proper ending

   Synonym:    peter outfizzle outfizzle