steeply

1 The slope continued steeply downwards and the rocks on either hand rose to the height of cliffs.

2 Prices rose steeply.

物价猛涨。

3 Dozens more lay rotting on the slopes, and every third or fourth tree, it seemed, was leaning steeply on a neighbor.

4 The opening led us into a winding passage that ran steeply downhill for perhaps a mile.

5 Dark hair slants steeply across his forehead and is plastered to either side of his head, and there is a disturbing, vaguely supercilious smile set into long, narrow lips.

6 A mallard suddenly took wing, rising steeply into the air with an angry squawk.

一只绿头鸭突然飞起，愤怒地尖鸣一声直冲天空。

7 The route went steeply up to a lonesome pass where there was a dirt parking lot.

8 Industrial production is falling more steeply than in America (see chart).

工业生产的下滑速度远大于美国(见表)。

9 We turned the corner and saw that the road descended steeply.

我们转过弯，看到路陡然下倾。

10 The index for most Asian economies has risen steeply since the spring.

自春季以来，大多数亚洲经济体的这项指数呈现陡增态势。

11 It was already a mile or more away, but now he saw it bank steeply to the right, making a sharp turn.

12 The houses were built of whitewashed stone, with steeply pitched roofs of dark grey slate.

13 Unemployment seems likely to rise steeply before wages start to adjust.

而在开始调整工资前，失业率似乎就可能飙升。

14 Justice is, indeed, a product of the Appalachian coalmining country where lush mountains flank rust-colored creeks, the hollows rising so steeply that there is barely room for a house on either side of the creeks.

15 He plunged off in the direction of the call, and found himself going steeply uphill.

16 One time when I was growing up in San Francisco, she looked at the way our new apartment sat too steeply on the hill.

17 The move, he explained, would give him political cover at home, where public sentiment against the bomb was steeply on the rise.

18 Through the opening a shadowy stair could be seen climbing steeply up; but beyond the lower steps the darkness was deeper than the night.

19 They continued along the corridor, which curved always slightly to the right, so Mrs. Frisby could never really tell how long it was, and which soon began to incline more steeply into the ground.

20 From this point the route angled steeply upward along a graceful arete of wind-compacted snow that culminated in the South Summit—where I arrived at 11:00 to find a second, even worse bottleneck.

1 陡峭地

precipitously

2 急剧

steep explosive hard

3 急剧地

hard

4 陡峭

bold steep bluff perpendicular abrupt arduous precipitous steepy precipitously craggedness steepness bluffness

5 陡直地

sheer