The new mound seems to have been built in stages producing the effect of a stepped cone.
There were cities of temples, castles and grand, stepped pyramids; pools for sacrifice and courts for elaborate games.
He guided Tennyson and Clara to a stepped display that looked rather like Tennysons' model of a ziggurat from History class.
The most obvious refinements are the column shafts which taper on a curve rather than a straight line and the stepped platform which the columns sit on as well.
Outside there is a large statue of a woman reclining in a stepped waterfall.
Anyone walking along the main atrium hallway towards the temporary exhibition space is confronted by a series of huge steel stepped arches.
The one Italian icon not worshipped here is the motorcar, which is of little more use in the stepped alleyways than it would be in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Wright imagined five stepped ceiling planes up and out from the stage, reflecting sound back down toward the rear of the house.
Above them are hospitality rooms and a stepped series of terraces with views to the bay.
We lurched up a series of rough, stepped rock pavements to access the plateau above the falaise.
The second type of machine overcomes both of these disadvantages by making use of only one electric motor to drive a series of stepped cones.
But, as with so many older shops in York, there is a stepped entrance.
Tight, sometimes tiny, stepped lanes weave between old stone houses with painted wooden doors and shuttered windows.
There is a picnic area by the Martello tower and a stepped access to the lower promenade.
The terraced garden is not just a series of regimented stepped rows running up the hill.
2Carried out or occurring in stages or with pauses rather than continuously.
成阶段的；非连续的，有停顿的
a stepped scale of discounts
不同等级的折扣。
Definition of stepped in US English:
stepped
adjectivestɛptstept
1Having or formed into a step or series of steps.
有阶梯的；成阶梯的
a building with stepped access
有阶梯式入口的建筑物。
Example sentencesExamples
Wright imagined five stepped ceiling planes up and out from the stage, reflecting sound back down toward the rear of the house.
But, as with so many older shops in York, there is a stepped entrance.
He guided Tennyson and Clara to a stepped display that looked rather like Tennysons' model of a ziggurat from History class.
There were cities of temples, castles and grand, stepped pyramids; pools for sacrifice and courts for elaborate games.
We lurched up a series of rough, stepped rock pavements to access the plateau above the falaise.
The one Italian icon not worshipped here is the motorcar, which is of little more use in the stepped alleyways than it would be in the Tyrrhenian Sea.
The second type of machine overcomes both of these disadvantages by making use of only one electric motor to drive a series of stepped cones.
The new mound seems to have been built in stages producing the effect of a stepped cone.
Above them are hospitality rooms and a stepped series of terraces with views to the bay.
Outside there is a large statue of a woman reclining in a stepped waterfall.
Anyone walking along the main atrium hallway towards the temporary exhibition space is confronted by a series of huge steel stepped arches.
The terraced garden is not just a series of regimented stepped rows running up the hill.
Tight, sometimes tiny, stepped lanes weave between old stone houses with painted wooden doors and shuttered windows.
The most obvious refinements are the column shafts which taper on a curve rather than a straight line and the stepped platform which the columns sit on as well.
There is a picnic area by the Martello tower and a stepped access to the lower promenade.
1.1Carried out or occurring in stages or with pauses rather than continuously.