第三人称单数： steepens
过去式： steepened
过去分词： steepened
现在分词： steepening

We expect yield curves to steepen significantly over the medium term .

我们预计收益率曲线将在中期显著变陡。

As we got nearer to the mountains , the road began to steepen .

当我们接近山区时，路开始变陡了。

Foreign investors would demand higher returns for holding us assets , causing bond yields to steepen .

外国投资者将为所持美国资产要求更高的回报，这将导致债券收益率曲线变得陡峭起来。

Central banks could raise short-term interest rates or they could steepen the yield curve by selling longer-dated assets from their balance-sheets .

央行可以选择上调短期利率，或者抛售长期资产以实现债券收益率曲线陡峭化。

China is now balancing the need to deleverage and ease its economic growth to stop certain sectors , such as property , from overheating , without causing the slowdown in manufacturing to steepen .

中国需要去杠杆化并放缓经济增长步伐以防某些产业（如房地产）过热，但又要避免加剧制造业的放缓。