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小词详解 | plateau
plateau 英 [ˈplætəʊ] 美 [plæˈtoʊ]
It also caused global economic inequality to plateau, and perhaps even decline, for the first time since industrialisation began.
它也使得全球经济不平等状况趋向稳定,甚至可能是自工业化开始以来第一次减缓。
——《经济学人》But even if the social network is reaching a plateau in many developed countries, it is still spreading like kudzu in Asia and Latin America.
尽管这家社交网络在许多发达国家的增长正趋于平稳,它在亚洲和拉丁美洲仍在如野草般迅速增长。
——《纽约时报》
[名词] 高原
石油市场因当天来自日内瓦的可疑报道出现了起伏。但现在似乎已到了停滞期。
Oil markets oscillated on the day's dubious reports from Geneva. But it now appears to have reached a plateau.原油价格的暴涨导致我们的产品销量停滞不前。而新闻部长正努力消除民众对一触即发的石油危机的恐惧。
The exorbitant increase in the price of crude oil has caused our sales to plateau. And the Information Minister is trying to quell fears of a looming oil crisis.
High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
她高高地站在蓝岭上麓的高原上,看见一望无际逶迤起伏的红色丘陵和底部突露花岗岩,以及到处耸立的嶙峋苍松。
upland: an area of high or hilly land lull: a temporary interval of quiet or lack of activity respite: a short period of rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant