1HORIZONTALif the ground or a surface slopes, it is higher at one end than the other 倾斜,成斜坡
slope up/down/away etc
a pleasant garden that slopes down to the river
一座向河边倾斜的宜人花园
2slope offphrasal verbphr vBritish EnglishBrE informalLEAVE A PLACEto leave somewhere quietly and secretly, especially when you are avoiding work 〔尤指为了逃避工作〕悄悄离开,溜掉
Mike sloped off early today.
迈克今天提早溜了。
Examples from the Corpus
slope off• While the manager was away, Brian took the opportunity to slope off home an hourearly every day.• "Where's Sam?" "I saw him sloping off to the pubhalf an hour ago."
slope up/down/away etc• The roof sloped away alarmingly and, for a moment, Craig almost lost his balance.• It can be seen that the graphslopes up and although an exactrelationship does not exist, a systematic ones does.• It had a long entrance passage sloping down from the east.• The green was hard and sloped away from the fairway.• Its head was down and its back sloped up into a kind of point at the rear.• Venting an attic is difficult if the roof is hipped; that is, sloping down on all four sides.• It sloped down slightly for about fifty feet.• River valleys and railway lines are usually fairly level, with the ground sloping down to the rivers.
Originslope2
(1500-1600) Probably from aslope“in a sloping position”((14-21 centuries)), probably from Old Englishaslopen, past participle of aslupan“to slip away”