| 词汇 | plateau |
| 释义 | plateau noun[ C ] uk /ˈplæt.əʊ/ us /plætˈoʊ/pluralplateauxuk /-z/usor mainlyUSplateaus plateaunoun[C] (FLAT LAND)a large flat area of land that is high above sea level高原 Geography: hills & mountains acclivity alpine tundra clifftop craggy esker highlands hillock Marilyn mesa mid-ocean ridge motte Mount Kilimanjaro pinnacle scarp slope spur steep the Adirondack Mountains the Alaska Range the Alps plateaunoun[C] (NO CHANGE)a period during which there are no large changes: 平稳期;停滞期 The US death rate reached a plateau in the 1960s, before declining suddenly.美国的人口死亡率在20世纪60年代进入平稳阶段后突然下降。 Pauses & interludes abeyance adjournment asynchronously break break-journey caesura comfort stop hiatus hold something in abeyance in abeyance interlude intermission interval moratorium non-continuous one-stop pause postponement stoppage suspension plateau verb[ I ] uk /ˈplæt.əʊ/ us /plætˈoʊ/ to reach a particular level and then stay the same: 稳定；停滞 I'd been losing about a pound a week on my diet, but recently I've plateaued and haven't lost an ounce.我通过节食体重每周减轻1磅左右，但最近体重稳定了下来，1磅也没少。 The economic slowdown has caused our sales to plateau.经济发展减速导致我们的产品销量停滞不前。 Keeping and staying the same anti-progressive calcification calcify consistency consistent continuum invariant inveteracy kept leave well aloneidiom left stability stabilization stabilize stably stay unmanipulated unreformed wallow in something wouldn't have it any other wayidiom plateau | American Dictionaryplateau noun[ C ] us/plæˈtoʊ/ earth science a large, flat area of land that is higher than the land around it A plateau is also a period during which there are no big changes: The crime rate in the city reached a plateau in the 1980s and then declined. plateau verb[ I ] us/plæˈtoʊ/ to reach a level and stay there, rather than rising or falling: The population increase is expected to plateau in the year 2007. plateau | Business Englishplateau noun[ S ] uk /ˈplætəʊ/ us /plæˈtəʊ/ a level beyond which business activities, sales, profits, etc. no longer develop or increase, especially after a period of rapid growth: reach/hit a plateauDo you believe that the number of people using the internet has now reached a plateau? plateau verb[ I ] uk /ˈplætəʊ/ us /plæˈtəʊ/ to stop developing or increasing, especially after a period of rapid growth: Analysts believe the market will plateau within the next five years in line with demographic trends. start/begin to plateauSales of new cars have begun to plateau after three years of record growth. Examples of plateauplateau Lithospheric buoyancy and collisional orogenesis: subduction of oceanic plateaus, continental margins, island arcs, spreading ridges, and seamounts. The highest mountains (800-850 m) are capped with forested lateritic plateaux. Two plateaus, one at the roll-up region and the other at the vortex merging region, existed. Is regression a true event or is it simply that the growth of the lesion plateaus while the growth of the fetus continues around it? Different management systems reached yield plateaus for different nitrogen rates. On the ironstone plateaus, soils are stony and shallow. A small region of negative values (figure 25b, d) was found at the end of the two plateaus (figure 19). Local search algorithms may suer from problems with plateaus, local minima, and cycling. Next to that, five plateaus of internet use were introduced, to depict the development of front office use of internet (mostly for service delivery). The landscape is formed by plateaux at an altitude of 80-140 m, with a clay-sandy soil which is characteristically deep, acid and well drained. The proportion of trees that died standing increased moving up the topographic gradient from the valleys through to the ridges and plateaux. The soils in these plateaux are very poor and are avoided by local people for agricultural purposes. Spatial gaps in arc volcanism: the effect of collision or subduction of oceanic plateaus. However, arguing for plateaus fails to account for the consistent drop in the curve from \\z\\ to \\z, 3 c\\, and the consistent drop from \\f\\ to \, g\\. Interestingly, however, for verbs the marginally useful context width plateaus at an unexpectedly wide +60-80 words. See all examples of plateau These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withplateauplateauThese are words often used in combination with plateau. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. high plateau A theory of fertility : from highplateau to destabilization. limestone plateau The goitered gazelle inhabits sands and gravel plains and limestone plateau. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. plateau phase Voltage spread in the nonilluminated region was 10% larger during the plateau phase compared to the peak phase. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with plateau |
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