plates

英 [pleɪts]

美 [pleɪts]

n.  盘子; 碟子; 一盘所盛之量; 一盘; 一道主菜
v.  电镀(尤指镀金、镀银); 为…加设护板; (用金属板等)覆盖
plate的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 盘；碟
  Aplateis a round or oval flat dish that is used to hold food.
  1. Anita pushed her plate away; she had eaten virtually nothing.
     安妮塔把自己的盘子推开;她几乎什么都没吃。
  2. Aplate offood is the amount of food on the plate.
     一盘（或碟）之量
  3. ...a huge plate of bacon and eggs.
     一大盘咸肉煎蛋
• （尤指用于机械或建筑上金属制的）平板，薄板
  Aplateis a flat piece of metal, especially on machinery or a building.
• （通常置于办公室或住宅门边上的）金属姓名牌
  Aplateis a small, flat piece of metal with someone's name written on it, which you usually find beside the front door of an office or house.
• See also:...dusty-looking cars with New Jersey plates.number platelicense plate
• N-UNCOUNT （尤指银或金质的）餐具
  Plateis dishes, bowls, and cups that are made of precious metal, especially silver or gold.
  1. ...gold and silver plate, jewellery, and roomfuls of antique furniture.
     金银餐具、珠宝，还有整屋整屋的古董家具
• （印刷用的）印版，图版
  In printing, aplateis a sheet of metal which is carved or specially treated with chemicals so that it can be used to print text or pictures.
• （摄影中的）感光板，（玻璃）干版
  In photography, aplateis a thin sheet of glass that is covered with a layer of chemicals which react to the light and on which an image can be formed.
• N-COUNT （书中的）整版插图
  Aplatein a book is a picture or photograph which takes up a whole page and is usually printed on better quality paper than the rest of the book.
  1. Fermor's book has 55 colour plates.
     弗莫尔的书里有55页整版彩色插图。
• （显微镜下的长方形）载物片，玻璃片
  In a microscope, theplateis a small rectangular piece of glass onto which you put a small amount of the substance that you want to look at. You then slide the plate under the microscope to look at the substance.
• 假牙托；（牙）托基
  A dentalplateis a piece of plastic which is shaped to fit inside a person's mouth and which a set of false teeth is attached to.
• N-COUNT （地质学中的大陆）板块
  In geology, aplateis a large piece of the earth's surface, perhaps as large as a continent, which moves very slowly.
  1. The United States Geological Survey has revealed that the earthquake was not caused by a simple horizontal movement of one plate past another.
     美国地质调查局揭示了此次地震并非由大陆板块间简单的水平交错运动所引起。
• （棒球运动中）the plate 同 home plate
  In baseball,the plateis the same as thehome plate.
• PHRASE 有很多工作要做；有很多事要处理
  If youhave enough onyourplateorhave a lot onyourplate, you have a lot of work to do or a lot of things to deal with.
  1. We have enough on our plate. There is plenty of work to be done on what we have.
     我们有很多工作要做。仅是手头现有的事情就已经有的忙了。
• PHRASE 把…拱手奉送给
  If you say that someone has thingshanded tothemon a plate, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.
  1. Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate.
     他甚至连总统之位都是得来全不费工夫。

双语例句

• Pour a pool of sauce on two plates and arrange the meat neatly
  在两个盘子里倒少许沙司酱，然后把肉摆放整齐。
• The towers are surfaced with steel plates.
  在塔面上加了一层钢板。
• Exquisite china soup dishes reposed on silver plates.
  银盘子上面摆放着精制的陶瓷汤盘。
• She arranged plates and cutlery on a small table.
  她在一张小桌上摆好盘子和餐具。
• The metal plates are made of aluminum and steel respectively, and their surfaces are all polished.
  实验中采用的金属板分别为铝质和钢质，表面都进行了抛光处理。
• First, the buckling and failure loads are examined by experiments for corrugated plates with two different wave lengths.
  通过试验，探索了两种不同波长的复合材料波纹板屈曲载荷和破坏载荷；
• The book has several colour plates.
  书中有几幅彩色插图。
• I soon learnt to read the licence plates 'prefixes.
  我很快就学会了识别牌照前面的代码。
• I have watched the potters mold, fire and paint their bowls, plates and vases with sacred designs.
  我见过制陶工人捏塑、烧制碗碟花瓶，并在上面涂绘各种宗教图案。
• The bar counter groans under the weight of huge plates of the freshest fish.
  吧台上摆满了大碟大碟非常新鲜的鱼。