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strata

/strey-tuh, strat-uh, strah-tuh/US // ˈstreɪ tə, ˈstræt ə, ˈstrɑ tə //UK // (ˈstrɑːtə) //

地层,层数,阶层,层级

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a plural of stratum.
    • : stratum.

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Examples

  • I could queue the sound of Mars, find a three-dimensional rendering of the strata of the Grand Canyon, or watch fish feed deep inside the Mariana Trench by the time you finish the next paragraph.

  • The pictures are tactile and densely tiered, with collaged newspaper and magazine pages sometimes embedded among the strata.

  • For prospects outside of that strata, much of recruiting has been determined by preexisting relationships or fresh tape from the past year.

  • Outside the small town of Caliente in southeast Nevada, the road turned to well-graded dirt, curving around the rocky mountains whose strata mark the tectonics and erosions that led them to their current state.

  • For those not in that exalted strata, being ambushed by a force majeure of imminent death has often compelled ad hoc bequests that are more MacGyver than mundane.

  • They are really entrusted to the family motive operative in those strata.

  • Chopped, however, occupies a unique strata within the world of Food Network.

  • Rather, it is a social healing process and the resolution of violence between opposed social strata if it is successful.

  • Many great artists, from Henry James to Johannes Vermeer, have made great careers portraying rarified strata of society.

  • I've long been fixated, low-budget Edith Wharton-like, on what happens when different strata of society rub up against each other.

  • In this same region, in Patrick County, may be seen crystals in the shape of crosses in certain rock strata.

  • These rock strata are so straight and so symmetrical that they resemble a series of chimneys suggesting their name.

  • The cliffs of Red Point partake of a reddish tinge and appear to be disposed nearly in horizontal strata.

  • The ocean floor, in general, is the part of the earth's surface where strata are constantly being laid down.

  • If the strata be different, what is the order in which they are placed above each other successively?