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- a slope from the horizontal or vertical in carpentry and stonework; a sloping surface or edge（细木工或细石工工艺的）斜面; 斜边; 斜角。
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- （亦作bevel square）a tool for marking angles in carpentry and stonework斜角规。
(bevelled, bevelling; <美> beveled, beveling) with obj.［often as adj. bevelled］
- reduce (a square edge on an object) to a sloping edge把（物体的方形边）改成斜面边：
a bevelled mirror.
带斜面边的镜子。
词源
late 16th cent. （as an adjective in the sense 'oblique'）： from an Old French diminutive of baif 'open-mouthed', from baer 'to gape' （see BAY5 ）.