tail off

英 [teɪl ɒf]

美 [teɪl ɔːf]

（声音）逐渐变弱; 逐渐减少; 越来越不重要; 逐渐消失

柯林斯词典

• See also:Last year, economic growth tailed off to below four percent...The drug's effect does not tail off after it has been used repeatedly.tail away

双语例句

• The dog's tail tapered off to a point.
  这狗的尾部逐渐变细成为一个尖梢。
• A kangaroo needs its tail for pushing off.
  袋鼠需要它的尾巴来推离（地面）。
• Ultimately, though, the saving grace of Asia is that growth rates are starting to tail off from a high base.
  不过说到底，亚洲的优势在于：它的经济增长率是从一个较高的基础上开始下降的。
• He picked up the dead mouse by the tail and went off with it.
  这个人用手勾着死老鼠的尾巴，就上路了。
• For example, wages tend to be high near densely occupied blocks, but tail off within a mile or two.
  举例来说，在居民稠密街区的附近，工资往往较高，但一两英里以外，工资水平就降下来了。
• In our motherland hidden underground everywhere is a wealth of mineral resources. South Africa's gold and mineral bonanza is beginning to tail off.
  祖国的地下到处都埋藏着丰富的矿产资源。南非的丰富黄金矿藏量以及其它矿业资源正在日益枯竭。
• Sales tend to tail off toward the end of the season.
  该季节末期，销售量会减小。
• EXAMPLE: Product sales were good until the holiday period, but after that they started to tail off.
  产品销售一直到节日期间都很好，但节后开始下滑。
• In the adjusting pressure system using quantitative pump which provides invariable pressure. When the pressure augments, the requirement of flux will tail off.
  在定量泵节流调节系统中，定量泵提供的是恒定流量，当系统压力增大时，会使流量需求减小。
• At some date in the 1990s British oil production will probably tail off.
  到20世纪90年代的某个时候，英国石油产量可能会逐渐减少。