plateau / plæˈtoʊ or, especially British, ˈplæt oʊ /

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plateau3 个定义

n. 名词 noun

plural pla·teaus, pla·teaux [pla-tohz or, especially British, plat-ohz]. /plæˈtoʊz or, especially British, ˈplæt oʊz/.

  1. a land area having a relatively level surface considerably raised above adjoining land on at least one side, and often cut by deep canyons.
  2. a period or state of little or no growth or decline: to reach a plateau in one's career.
  3. Psychology. a period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph.
  4. a flat stand, as for a centerpiece, sometimes extending the full length of a table.
v. 无主动词 verb

pla·teaued, pla·teau·ing.

  1. to reach a state or level of little or no growth or decline, especially to stop increasing or progressing; remain at a stable level of achievement; level off: After a period of uninterrupted growth, sales began to plateau.
v. 有主动词 verb

pla·teaued, pla·teau·ing.

  1. to cause to remain at a stable level, especially to prevent from rising or progressing: Rising inflation plateaued sales income.

plateau 近义词

n. 名词 noun

level; flat, often high, land

更多plateau例句

  1. On this week’s episode of Weirdest Thing, I explain why competitive eating has reached a performance plateau—and what it would take for a professional eater to reach the literal limits of human swallowing speed.
  2. As the numbers of cases slowly drift down toward a plateau well above most industrialized countries, senior officials have begun speaking of the virus in the past tense.
  3. DOH officials have said the decline in new cases appeared to have leveled off and reached a plateau between 2015 and 2018 when the number of new cases remained relatively stable.
  4. One thing about working in the Dry Valleys is that you can get these huge winds, 70-80 miles per hour, coming off the polar plateau.
  5. The resulting plateau in nationwide cases since May has been ticking upward in recent weeks.
  6. But he has somehow leapt to a higher plateau during the last few years—all the more amazing given his precarious health.
  7. One cold October day in 1968, I climbed out of a warm creek on the Yellowstone Plateau and came face to face with a huge grizzly.
  8. In those countries the study revealed little evidence of any plateau.
  9. Those carbs need to be burned with cardio, or else weight loss will plateau.
  10. The teams of service personnel, all of whom have physical or cognitive injuries, have walked 335km across the Antarctic Plateau.
  11. A short distance off was another ridge or spur of the mountain, widening out into almost a plateau.
  12. Massed on the plateau above the mule-path, the whole population of the village stood to watch them down the steep descent.
  13. On the afternoon of July 5th it fell to the lot of Macdonald to attempt to seize the plateau which formed the Austrian centre.
  14. It was one of those brilliant clear crisp days with which that high plateau can put even California to the blush.
  15. A plateau is defined as a high lowland; therefore, this section is higher in elevation than the Coastal Plain region.