plateau
plateau 英 [ˈplætəʊ] 美 [plæˈtoʊ]
n. 高原；稳定水平；托盘；平顶女帽 vi. 达到平衡；达到稳定时期
名词复数:plateaus
- A plateau is a high, flat area of land. The word has also been stretched to include a leveling off of progress. At first the children at the sleepover were running wild, but then their energy level reached a plateau.
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- n. 高原；稳定水平；托盘；平顶女帽
- vi. 达到平衡；达到稳定时期
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1. As the river drops from the plateau， it forms great waterfalls.
河水从高原上下落时， 形成了巨大的瀑布。
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2. Similarly there is more precipitation in the Tibetan plateau, probably because of climate change.
类似地，青藏高原的降水量也增加了，或许是由于气候变化。
- 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" (from PIE root *plat- "to spread"). Meaning "stage at which no progress is apparent" is attested from 1897, originally in psychology of learning. In reference to sexual stimulation from 1960.
- plateau (v.) 1952, from plateau (n.). Related: Plateaued; plateauing.
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