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单词 downslope
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downslope

/ˈdaʊnsləʊp /
adverb
At or towards a lower point on a slope.Gasping, Joshua stumbled into the driving snow, slogging through the drifts downslope toward the forest and the Dogs, his legs already numb with the chill....
  • As your balance and coordination improve, set goals like eyeballing a tree 100 yards downslope and making 20 turns on the way to it.
  • He cranks his uphill repeat, turns, and pads downslope for his final two-minute gasper.
adjective
Caused by, occurring, or acting on a downward slope: they can produce strong downslope winds...
  • The term Föhn is often used as a generic term for a warm downslope wind.
  • The transport paths are usually symmetrical about the original impact, so that the pattern of movement on a hill slope is diffusive, although there is a net downslope movement.
  • We consider the most likely mechanism for this coast-normal extension to be downslope gravity spreading and sliding of the anticlines of weak saturated sediments lifted into anticlines above subcreted thrust culminations.
noun
A downward slope.The downslopes - the ends of careers - are usually never pretty for anybody....
  • The larger macropores may extend for long distances, as water erodes and enlarges the segments that run downslopes.
  • On the downslope from the foreboding metal fence of the Camarones del Sur shrimp farm, known as Camarsa, a few fisherman stand half-submerged in the shallow waters.
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