petered
美 [?pit?r] 
英 [?pi?t?(r)]
- n.彼得；【圣】彼得；(基督教《圣經》中的)《彼得書》；保險箱
- v.(水流,礦脈等)逐漸枯竭；消耗掉；(漸漸)消失 終止
- 網絡何潤東；皮特；彼得前書
詞形變化
第三人稱單數：peters 現在分詞：petering 過去式：petered
英漢解釋
v. | |
n. | 7. 【圣】《彼得書》,《伯多祿書》,《撇特爾》,圣經新約中的一書,分為前書和后書 |
英英解釋
例句
As he thought of her, his anger slowly petered out.
一想到她，他的怒氣就慢慢平息了。
The Green Movement's initial promise soon petered out, revealing, sadly, that it had very little political content to cohere support around.
“綠色運動”的最初承諾快速地銷聲匿跡，可悲地揭示了這樣一點：它沒有得到廣泛支持的政治主張。
"Now two years later we see that this energy has sort of fizzled and petered out, " Hoffman said.
兩年之后的現在，我們發現這種激情已經逐漸減退并消失。
A tenderness she might have conveyed petered out in a shiver as she stood the glass on the gritty surface of the metal table.
當她把杯子放在粗糙的金屬桌面上時，一種本可以表示的柔情蜜意，在一陣顫抖中消失殆盡。
It was a large object, I only saw it for two or three seconds. It was going in a low trajectory then petered out into nothing.
這顆流星很大，我只看到2到3秒的時間，然后它沿著很低的軌道飛過，慢慢消失了。
It is bad enough when trade talks break up in acrimony; how much worse that the Geneva gathering petered out amid complacency and apathy.
貿易談判在激烈言詞中破裂就足夠糟糕了，日內瓦會談在心安理得和冷漠中結束又會更差到哪里去呢？
The much-feared Japanese takeover of the computer and cultural industries back in the 1980s now has petered out into a historical footnote.
在1980年代，我們還一度非常擔心電腦及文化產業被日本接管，但現在這種擔憂已成過眼云煙。
But within a few days the conference had petered out in disarray.
但是數天來，會議逐漸在混亂中走向尾聲。
But it petered out in the next few years as Brezhnev took a grip in Moscow.
但隨著勃列日涅夫（Brezhnev）在莫斯科掌握領導權，這盞明燈在隨后幾年里逐漸失去了光芒。
That discrepancy was eventually explained by Einstein as a relativistic effect of the sun's gravity, and the search for Vulcan petered out.
這種差別最終被愛因斯坦以太陽引力相對效應解釋清楚了，因此對“火神星”的搜索也逐漸淡失。
The rest petered out, usually because one of the recipients was either too busy to forward the message or thought it was junk mail.
其余的消失了，通常因為一個受者太忙了，也沒有提出了信息或者以為是垃圾郵件。
For a while that book was indeed very popular, but it was not long before the demand petered out.
那本書的確風行一時，可是不久就變得沒有什么銷路了。
Without entry into the eurozone, this might have petered out.
要不是加入歐元區，這種奇跡可能不會延續下去。
The music just petered out --there was no proper ending .
樂曲僅僅是逐漸結束-沒有固有的結尾。
But the growth has petered out: online revenue has plateaued at about 12% of the company total and declined slightly last quarter.
但是這個希望已經破滅了：來自網絡的收入在最高時也只占到公司總收入的12%，上個季度還略有下跌。
That also explains why talk of mergers and acquisitions in the sector has petered out, for now.
這也是有關該行業并購的傳聞之所以暫時偃旗息鼓的原因。
It had petered out soon after Anne's marriage.
其實它早在安妮結婚之后就解散了。
That gave City the most precarious of footholds in the tie but their challenge petered out in the second half.
這或許給了曼城在第二回合發起反擊的最好立足點，但是他們在下半場的努力沒能有所建樹。
The debate petered out, which was a shame as it touched on an important issue in the debate about multitasking: rudeness.
爭論平息了，這有些遺憾，因為它觸及了多任務（multitasking）爭論中的一個重要問題：無禮。
History suggests that trends established during periods of low trading volumes have swiftly petered out once volumes picked up.
歷史表明，在交投清淡時期確立的趨勢，一旦交投活躍起來，就會迅速瓦解。
An effort to revive Mongolian script to replace the Cyrillic alphabet imposed in the seven decades of Soviet domination petered out.
蒙古曾努力振興蒙古文字取代蘇聯統治的七十年中強加給蒙古的西里爾字母，但收效甚微。
But Mr Brown was never that keen on mixing markets with health care. Since he became prime minister, the bolder measures have petered out.
但是布朗從來不熱衷于將市場與衛生保健混合，自從他出任首相后，較大膽的政策逐漸減少。
The sniping focuses on a study that found the educational gains from Head Start had petered out by third grade.
反對方關注的一項研究發現，提早教育的收益會在三年級前逐漸消失。
While last year's rally in metal seems to have petered out, prospects for platinum, along with palladium, remain bright.
在去年大部分金屬的價格攀升后又紛紛下跌的同時，鉑金和鈀的價格則一直蒸蒸日上。
But, after 2000, as the crisis remained confined to emerging markets, discussion petered out.
然而，2000年之后，由于危機依然只局限于新興市場，討論逐漸平息了。
Examples After he got married, his appetite for partying petered out. He rarely stays out late now.
他自從結婚后，對參加派對逐漸失去興趣。他現在極少晚歸了。
Our trail petered out, as seems inevitable in these situations.
腳下的足跡漸漸消失，在這種情況下無可避免。
Her enthusiasm for dancing petered out and she stopped going to lessons .
她對舞蹈的熱情已漸趨消失，而且已不再去上課了。
As the river dried up, our water supply petered out.
由于河流枯竭，我們的供水逐漸斷絕。
The firing petered out yesterday evening.
槍炮聲昨天傍晚逐漸停了。
His interest in learning Japanese has petered out.
他學習日語的興趣逐漸消失了。
I'll bet the party petered out pretty soon after that.
我敢打賭，公布完這個消息不久舞會就散了。
Finally, after a couple of hours, the gunfire petered out.
最后，過了兩個小時，槍聲才漸漸停止了。
Countries like Japan (mid-50s to the mid-70s) and South Korea (in the 70s) enjoyed periods of rampant growth that eventually petered out.
日本（五十年代中期到七十年代中期）和韓國（七十年代）享受了經濟迅猛增長的時期，但最終逐漸消逝。
The storm petered out finally .
暴風雨最終逐漸平息下來。
After a long desert journey the oxen became much petered.
在沙漠中走了長路，牛都累得不行了。
That has now petered out.
但現在這種預期也逐漸消失。
