1.(水流,矿脉等)逐渐枯竭;消耗掉 (out)
2.(渐渐)消失 (out) 终止
1.彼得
2.【圣】彼得;(基督教《圣经》中的)《彼得书》
3.保险箱
4.单人牢房
5.麻醉品
6.【男名】男子名
7.【圣】《彼得书》,《伯多禄书》,《撇特尔》,圣经新约中的一书,分为前书和后书
1.彼得
2.【圣】彼得;(基督教《圣经》中的)《彼得书》
3.保险箱
4.单人牢房
5.麻醉品
6.【男名】男子名
7.【圣】《彼得书》,《伯多禄书》,《撇特尔》,圣经新约中的一书,分为前书和后书
1.either of two books of the Bible, originally letters, traditionally attributed to St. Peter.
2.a safe or cash box
3.the witness box in a court
1.in bridge and whist, to play a high card first, followed by a low card
1.As he thought of her, his anger slowly petered out.
一想到她，他的怒气就慢慢平息了。
2.The Green Movement's initial promise soon petered out, revealing, sadly, that it had very little political content to cohere support around.
“绿色运动”的最初承诺快速地销声匿迹，可悲地揭示了这样一点：它没有得到广泛支持的政治主张。
3."Now two years later we see that this energy has sort of fizzled and petered out, " Hoffman said.
两年之后的现在，我们发现这种激情已经逐渐减退并消失。
4.A tenderness she might have conveyed petered out in a shiver as she stood the glass on the gritty surface of the metal table.
当她把杯子放在粗糙的金属桌面上时，一种本可以表示的柔情蜜意，在一阵颤抖中消失殆尽。
5.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.
这颗流星很大，我只看到2到3秒的时间，然后它沿着很低的轨道飞过，慢慢消失了。
6.It is bad enough when trade talks break up in acrimony; how much worse that the Geneva gathering petered out amid complacency and apathy.
贸易谈判在激烈言词中破裂就足够糟糕了，日内瓦会谈在心安理得和冷漠中结束又会更差到哪里去呢？
7.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，我们还一度非常担心电脑及文化产业被日本接管，但现在这种担忧已成过眼云烟。
8.But within a few days the conference had petered out in disarray.
但是数天来，会议逐渐在混乱中走向尾声。
9.But it petered out in the next few years as Brezhnev took a grip in Moscow.
但随着勃列日涅夫（Brezhnev）在莫斯科掌握领导权，这盏明灯在随后几年里逐渐失去了光芒。
10.That discrepancy was eventually explained by Einstein as a relativistic effect of the sun's gravity, and the search for Vulcan petered out.
这种差别最终被爱因斯坦以太阳引力相对效应解释清楚了，因此对“火神星”的搜索也逐渐淡失。