plateaus

英 [ˈplætəʊz]

美 [plæˈtoʊz]

n.  高原; (发展、增长后的)稳定期，停滞期
v.  (在一段时期的发展后)保持稳定水平，处于停滞状态
plateau的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 高原
  Aplateauis a large area of high and fairly flat land.
  1. A broad valley opened up leading to a high, flat plateau of cultivated land.
     一条宽阔的山谷展现在眼前，通往一处平整的开垦地高原。
• N-COUNT （活动或进程中的）稳定阶段，停滞时期
  If you say that an activity or process has reached aplateau, you mean that it has reached a stage where there is no further change or development.
  1. The US heroin market now appears to have reached a plateau...
     美国的海洛因市场现在似乎已到了停滞期。
  2. I think the economy is stuck on a kind of plateau of slow growth.
     我认为经济将停留在缓慢发展的阶段。
• VERB （活动、进程、成本等）达到稳定阶段，进入停滞时期
  If something such as an activity, process, or costplateausorplateaus out, it reaches a stage where there is no further change or development.
  1. Evelyn's career is accelerating, and mine is plateauing out a bit...
     伊夫琳的职业生涯蒸蒸日上，而我的则停滞不前。
  2. The shares plateaued at 153p.
     股票稳定在153便士。

双语例句

• But if you want to make sure your earnings keep rising over the long term, you need a strategy to protect against salary plateaus and unemployment.
  但是如果你想获得长远的高薪，你就需要考虑一下如何防止薪水固定和失业的问题了。
• Study on Water Consumption of Main Ecosystem Tree Species in High Cold Region on Loess Plateaus of Qinghai
  青海黄土高寒区主要生态树种耗水特性研究
• The Canadian Shield is a semicircular band of rocky highlands and plateaus around Hudson Bay form the northern shores of Quebec to the Arctic shores of the Northwest Territories.
  几乎整个加拿大被加拿大地盾所覆盖。这是一围绕哈得孙湾的半圆形的石头山地和高原。从魁北克省的北部海岸一直到西北领地的北极沿岸。
• Laos has thickly forested landscape consists mostly of rugged mountains, the highest of which is Phou Bia at2,817 m, with some plains and plateaus.
  境内多数为浓密的森林所覆盖，且多数由崎岖的山地所组成，最高峰是比亚山峰（PhouBia），海拔2817米，此外，还有一些平原和高原。
• Locate in fault basin or sediment basin among plateaus, have deep and great rupture developing and controlling;
  均处断陷盆地或高原山间沉积盆地，有深大断裂发育控制；
• Therefore, China's rural poor are mostly concentrated in the central and western regions, especially in the western region, living in scattered areas in deserts, hills, mountains and plateaus.
  与此相关，中国农村贫困人口的绝大多数集中在中西部，尤其是西部，并呈块状、片状分布在高原、山地、丘陵、沙漠等地区。
• The geography of India is extremely diverse, with landscape ranging from snow-capped mountain ranges to deserts, plains, hills and plateaus.
  印度的地理是多样的，有冰雪覆盖的山区、沙漠、平原、小山和平原。
• On the surface of the earth, there are mountains, valleys, plateaus, hills, plains, rivers, oceans and islands.
  在地球的表面有山脉，河谷，高原，山丘，平原，河流，海洋以及海岛。
• Atacama's barren high plateaus are home to the Aymara people, who raise llamas for their meat and wool.
  艾马拉人居住在阿塔卡马的荒芜的高原上，他们饲养美洲驼以获取肉食和皮毛。
• China boasts the world's largest number of lakes on plateaus.
  中国是世界上高原湖泊最多的国家。