记忆方法
1. platform => plateau.
2. plate platform.
2. plate platform.
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词族 · plateau
词形变化
中文词源
plateau 高原，水平，稳定期，停滞期
来自法语plateau,高原，平地，来自plat,平的，展开，词源同plate,plan.-eau,小词后缀，对应-ille.引申词义水平，稳定期，停滞期等。
英语词源
- plateau (v.)
- 1952, from plateau (n.). Related: Plateaued; plateauing.
- plateau (n.)
- 1796, "elevated tract of relatively level land," from French plateau "table-land," from Old French platel (12c.) "flat piece of metal, wood, etc.," diminutive of plat "flat surface or thing," noun use of adjective plat "flat, stretched out" (12c.), perhaps from Vulgar Latin *plattus, from Greek platys "flat, wide, broad" (see plaice). Meaning "stage at which no progress is apparent" is attested from 1897, originally in psychology of learning. In reference to sexual stimulation from 1960.
权威例句
- 1. The US heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau.
- 美国的海洛因市场现在似乎已到了停滞期。
- 2. We took a plane south-west across the Anatolian plateau to Cappadocia.
- 我们乘飞机向着西南方向越过安纳托利亚高原，前往卡帕多西亚。
- 3. The road straightened and we were on a plateau.
- 路变直了，我们驶上了高原。
- 4. Inflation has reached a plateau.
- 通货膨胀停了下来。
- 5. The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.
- 该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部.