petered out

As he thought of her, his anger slowly petered out.

一想到她，他的怒气就慢慢平息了。

The Green Movement's initial promise soon petered out, revealing, sadly, that it had very little political content to cohere support around.

“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。

"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。

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。

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。

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？

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。

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。

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。

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。

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，通常因为一个受者太忙了，也没有提出了信息或者以为是垃圾邮件。

For a while that book was indeed very popular, but it was not long before the demand petered out.

那本书的确风行一时，可是不久就变得没有什么销路了。

Without entry into the eurozone, this might have petered out.

要不是加入欧元区，这种奇迹可能不会延续下去。

The music just petered out --there was no proper ending .

乐曲仅仅是逐渐结束-没有固有的结尾。

But the growth has petered out: online revenue has plateaued at about 12% of the company total and declined slightly last quarter.

但是这个希望已经破灭了：来自网络的收入在最高时也只占到公司总收入的12%，上个季度还略有下跌。

That also explains why talk of mergers and acquisitions in the sector has petered out, for now.

这也是有关该行业并购的传闻之所以暂时偃旗息鼓的原因。

It had petered out soon after Anne's marriage.

其实它早在安妮结婚之后就解散了。

That gave City the most precarious of footholds in the tie but their challenge petered out in the second half.

这或许给了曼城在第二回合发起反击的最好立足点，但是他们在下半场的努力没能有所建树。

The debate petered out, which was a shame as it touched on an important issue in the debate about multitasking: rudeness.

争论平息了，这有些遗憾，因为它触及了多任务（multitasking）争论中的一个重要问题：无礼。

History suggests that trends established during periods of low trading volumes have swiftly petered out once volumes picked up.

历史表明，在交投清淡时期确立的趋势，一旦交投活跃起来，就会迅速瓦解。