The lightweight,standard-issue Humvee is vulnerable to enemy fire and the heavier Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected truck,or MRAP, is too top-heavy for steep inclines.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

Because there's not a lot of room between the canals, that's why they're so steep when you walk up these things.

由于运河之间的陆地空间狭小,这就解释了为何你上楼时会觉得很陡峭

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

If we have a small engine, and we have to pull the car up a steep hill,a difficult hill, the engine is more likely to collapse,to blow up.

如果我们用的引擎很小，想把车开上一个陡峭崎岖的山坡，引擎很容易损毁，爆炸。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

In Germany this winter, the governing Christian Democrats proposed steep rate cuts to try to balance the market.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

I've got it plotted here; it's even more steep than that.

我把它画在这儿,这条线比那条线要陡峭得多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Some 3,600 firefighters are attacking the flames in steep terrain, using bulldozers, tractors and hand tools.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

"Both reports are very stark reminders of the steep recession that we find ourselves in.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Investors also worry that steep spending cuts enacted by some eurozone countries could stifle recovery.

VOA: standard.2010.05.25

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner hailed the news, but noted that steep economic hurdles remain.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

Some researchers dispute the steep rise in the numbers.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

"Whiteface is super steep. And it has ever-changing conditions."

VOA: standard.2010.02.09