Sloping

(adj.) having a slanting form or direction; 'an area of gently sloping hills'; 'a room with a sloping ceiling' .

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• Cleveland was a spacious, modern-built house, situated on a sloping lawn. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• It was a half-buried Crucifix, a little Christ under a little sloping hood, at the top of a pole. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• From the entrance into the lists, a gently sloping passage, ten yards in breadth, led up to the platform on which the tents were pitched. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• For this purpose a machine is made carried upon two wheels; the square surface has boards erected at the side, which, sloping outward, make a wider space above. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• There is a good room under the roof of the stables--with sloping rafters. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The green lane widened into a little circle of grass, where there was a small trickle of water at the bottom of a sloping bank. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there;--but her face? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of grizzled brown. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• A long, sloping hillside, dotted with gray limestone boulders, stretched behind us. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• She grumbles so much about the stairs at Heston; and the girl is to have that sloping attic over your room and mamma's. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• She could see Orion sloping up. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• You must make a new garden at what is now the back of the house; which will be giving it the best aspect in the world, sloping to the south-east. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The boat touched the edge of the patch of inn lawn, sloping gently to the water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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