英语词汇“plateau”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Word forms: plural plateaus, plural plateaux, 3rd person singular presenttense plateaus, present participle plateauing, past tense, past participle plateaued

1. countable noun

A plateau is a large area of high and fairly flat land.

A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land.

Synonyms: upland, table, highland, mesa More Synonyms of plateau

2. countable noun

If you say that an activity or process has reached a plateau, you mean that it has reached a stage where there is no further change or development.

The U.S. heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau.

I think the economy is stuck on a kind of plateau of slow growth.

Synonyms: levelling off, level, stage, stability More Synonyms of plateau

3. verb

If something such as an activity, process, or cost plateaus or plateaus out, it reaches a stage where there is no further change or development.

Evelyn's career is accelerating, and mine is plateauing out a bit. [V out]

The shares plateaued at 153p. [VERB + at]

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释义	Trends of plateau View usage for: plateau (plætoʊ, US plætoʊ) Word forms: plural plateaus, plural plateaux, 3rd person singular presenttense plateaus, present participle plateauing, past tense, past participle plateaued 1. countable noun A plateau is a large area of high and fairly flat land. A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land. Synonyms: upland, table, highland, mesa More Synonyms of plateau 2. countable noun If you say that an activity or process has reached a plateau, you mean that it has reached a stage where there is no further change or development. The U.S. heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau. I think the economy is stuck on a kind of plateau of slow growth. Synonyms: levelling off, level, stage, stability More Synonyms of plateau 3. verb If something such as an activity, process, or cost plateaus or plateaus out, it reaches a stage where there is no further change or development. Evelyn's career is accelerating, and mine is plateauing out a bit. [V out] The shares plateaued at 153p. [VERB + at] plateau in British English (ˈplætəʊ) nounWord forms: plural -eaus or -eaux (-əʊz) 1. a wide mainly level area of elevated land 2. a relatively long period of stability; levelling off the rising prices reached a plateau verb (intransitive) 3. to remain at a stable level for a relatively long period Word origin C18: from French, from Old French platel something flat, from plat flat; see plate Plateau in British English (ˈplætəʊ) noun a state of central Nigeria, formed in 1976 from part of Benue-Plateau State: tin mining. Capital: Jos. Pop: 3 178 712 (2006). Area: 30 913 sq km (11 936 sq miles) plateau in American English (plæˈtoʊ) nounWord forms: plural plaˈteaus or plaˈteaux (plæˈtoʊz) 1. an elevated tract of more or less level land; tableland; mesa 2. a period, level, etc. of relative stability, or relatively little change, as can be shown by a flat extent on a graph, etc.; specif., a period in which an individual's learning rate does not improve verb intransitive 3. to become relatively stable or constant, as in position Word origin Fr < OFr platel, dim. < plat: see plate Image of plateau © evenfh, Shutterstock Examples of 'plateau' in a sentence plateau A thousand feet below the airship lay the South Polar plateau. Davis, John Gordon SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND (2004) They moved closer to the steaming mountain and up on to a plateau of black and grey scalded soil. O'Connor, Joe DESPERADOES (2004) As we approached a plateau, the drumbeats grew louder and louder. Preethi Nair GYPSY MASALA (2004) In other languages plateau British English: plateau NOUN A plateau is a large area of high and fairly flat land. A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land. American English: plateau Brazilian Portuguese: planalto Chinese: 高原 European Spanish: meseta French: plateau German: Hochebene Italian: altopiano Japanese: 高原 Korean: 고원 European Portuguese: planalto Latin American Spanish: meseta All related terms of 'plateau' Jos Plateau → the Jos Plateau Ozark Plateau an eroded plateau in S Missouri, N Arkansas , and NE Oklahoma . Area: about 130 000 sq km (50 000 sq miles) Deccan Plateau triangular tableland occupying most of the peninsula of India, between the Eastern Ghats & Western Ghats & south of the Narbada River Langres Plateau a calcareous plateau of E France north of Dijon between the Seine and the Saône, reaching over 580 m (1900 ft): forms a watershed between rivers flowing to the Mediterranean and to the English Channel Cumberland Plateau division of the W Appalachians, extending from S W.Va. to N Ala. Laurentian Plateau (in Canada ) the wide area of Precambrian rock extending west from the Labrador coast to the basin of the Mackenzie and north from the Great Lakes to Hudson Bay and the Arctic : rich in minerals the Jos Plateau a plateau in Nigeria with an average altitude of 1280 metres Chinese translation of 'plateau' plateau (ˈplætəu) Word forms:pl plateaus plateaux (ˈplætəuz) n (c) 高原 (gāoyuán) (fig) [of activity, process] 稳(穩)定状(狀)态(態) (wěndìng zhuàngtài) 1 (noun) in the sense of upland Definition a wide level area of high land a high, flat plateau of cultivated land Synonyms upland table highland mesa tableland miles and miles of flat tableland 2 (noun) in the sense of levelling off Definition a relatively long period of stability The economy is stuck on a plateau of slow growth. Synonyms levelling off level in order according to their level of difficulty stage the final stage of the tour stability Additional synonyms in the sense of level Definition stage or degree of progress in order according to their level of difficulty Synonyms position, standard, degree (archaic), grade, standing, stage, rank, status in the sense of stage Definition a step or period of development, growth, or progress the final stage of the tour Synonyms step, leg, phase, point, level, period, division, length, lap, juncture in the sense of table Synonyms plateau, flat, plain, mesa, tableland, flatland Synonyms of 'plateau' plateau Explore 'plateau' in the dictionary Seetable
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