plateau

• n. 高原；穩定水平；托盤；平頂女帽
• vi. 達到平衡；達到穩定時期

來自法語plateau,高原，平地，來自plat,平的，展開，詞源同plate,plan.-eau,小詞後綴，對應-ille.引申詞義水平，穩定期，停滯期等。

plateau (v.)

1952, from plateau (n.). Related: Plateaued; plateauing.

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" (see plaice). Meaning "stage at which no progress is apparent" is attested from 1897, originally in psychology of learning. In reference to sexual stimulation from 1960.

1. The US heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau.

美國的海洛因市場現在似乎已到了停滯期。

來自柯林斯例句

2. We took a plane south-west across the Anatolian plateau to Cappadocia.

我們乘飛機向著西南方向越過安納托利亞高原，前往卡帕多西亞。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The road straightened and we were on a plateau.

路變直了，我們駛上了高原。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Inflation has reached a plateau.

通貨膨脹停了下來。

來自《權威詞典》

5. The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.

該牧場位於一個遼闊高原的中部.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》