plateau
plateau 英 [ˈplætəʊ] 美 [plæˈtoʊ]
n. 高原；平衡期，稳定期 vi. 保持平衡
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；平衡期，稳定期
- vi. 保持平衡
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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. tibetan plateau
青藏高原
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3. plateau climate
高原气候
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4. Mortgage rates declined, then reached a plateau.
抵押价格下跌，然后达到稳定水平
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5. Seefeld is set high on a sunny plateau.
塞费尔德位于阳光充沛的高原上。
- 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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