| 单词 | plot |
| 释义 | plot I. 1. a. < a little plot of ground > < a garden plot > < vegetable plots > < a setting of well-kept lawns and flower plots > b. < buried in the family plot > c. < an experimental plot > < stems were taken at random in … different parts of the plots — Journal of Economic Entomology > < proper selection of the sample or census plot — L.W.Wing > d. (1) < divided the tract into plots > < houses … erected on plots ranging from a few to as many as 40 acres — American Guide Series: Florida > (2) < concentrate the small … holdings into bigger plots — H.R.Lieberman > 2. archaic 3. 4. a. < complications of the plot > < a detective story with an ingenious plot > < a novel almost without plot > b. obsolete 5. < a plot to assassinate the king > < a plot against the government > 6. a. < a plot of the ship's course … should also be kept — Manual of Seamanship > b. c. < the gunnery liaison officer … feeding information to the fire control officer in plot — All Hands > 7. Synonyms: < the great Jesuit plot for the destruction of Protestant England and the invasion and conquest of the island by vast armies — S.M.Crothers > conspiracy differs from plot mainly in that it may indicate the persons involved < Guy Fawkes was known as a member of the conspiracy > It may suggest secrecy and unity within the band and carry a melodramatic effect. It may also suggest less positive action < a conspiracy of silence > or occasionally philanthropic or benevolent aims. cabal almost always endows the persons involved with a degree of eminence and is used mainly in matters political < that moment at 1:20 in the morning of June, 1920, when a Senatorial cabal, the most venal since the days of President Grant, nominated Warren G. Harding for the Presidency — Irving Stone > intrigue suggests secret underhand maneuvering in an atmosphere of duplicity < intrigues framed against the royal power and directed toward the disruption of the state — Hilaire Belloc > < the intrigue of special privilege in and upon the conquered countries — W.A.White > < the intrigue for place and the control of influence — J.H.Plumb > machination suggests crafty maneuver, as though in an intrigue or plot < the devilish machinations of an enchanter masquerading as a pious hermit — J.L.Lowes > < prevented authors and publishers from defeating the machinations of infringers — Margaret Nicholson > Synonym: see in addition plan. II. transitive verb 1. a. < plotting this underground river — Martin Gardner > b. < had plotted the reef on his chart > < plot … the exact position of the ship — Peter Heaton > < plot a course to that goal — Time > < plot the course of an airplane in flight from radar information > 2. < new residential districts are all plotted out > 3. a. b. < plotting the thermal conductivity versus mean temperature — Industrial Mineral Wool Products > c. 4. < plotted the murder of her husband > 5. < plotted his play carefully > intransitive verb 1. < plot for the coup d'etat — Geoffrey Bruun > 2. < plots better than most novelists > Synonyms: see plan I III. also plote chiefly Scotland IV. < the data plot at a single point > |
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