plate

• n. 碟；金属板；金属牌；感光底片
• vt. 电镀；给…装甲
• n. (Plate)人名；(英、德、俄、西、意、瑞典)普拉特

来自古法语plate,薄板，薄金属板，来自拉丁语plata,盘子，金属板，来自希腊语platys,平的，宽的，来自PIE*pele,展开，放平，词源同plan,plain.

1. a sheet of metal or wood or glass or plastic

2. (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score;

"he ruled that the runner failed to touch home"

3. a full-page illustration (usually on slick paper)

4. dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten

5. the quantity contained in a plate

6. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly

7. the thin under portion of the forequarter

8. a main course served on a plate;

"a vegetable plate"

"the blue plate special"

9. any flat platelike body structure or part

10. the positively charged electrode in a vacuum tube

11. a flat sheet of metal or glass on which a photographic image can be recorded

12. structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage

13. a shallow receptacle for collection in church

14. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

15. a dental appliance that artificially replaces missing teeth

16. the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws;

"a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"

"he plays behind the plate"

plate

plate: [13] Etymologically, a plate is something ‘flat’. It comes from Vulgar Latin *plattus ‘flat’, which may go back to Greek platús ‘broad’ (source of English place, plane the tree, and platypus). It reached English via two separate Old French words, which have since coalesced: first plate, which gives the sense ‘flat sheet’, as in silver plate and plate glass; and then, in the 15th century, plat, ‘dish for food’.

Related forms in English include plateau [18], platform [16] (etymologically a ‘flat form’), platinum [19], platitude [19] (a ‘flat’ or dull remark), and platter [14].
=> flat, place, plane, plateau, platform, platinum, platitude, platter, platypus

plate (n.)

mid-13c., "flat sheet of gold or silver," also "flat, round coin," from Old French plate "thin piece of metal" (late 12c.), from Medieval Latin plata "plate, piece of metal," perhaps via Vulgar Latin *plattus, formed on model of Greek platys "flat, broad" (see plaice (n.)). The cognate in Spanish (plata) and Portuguese (prata) has become the usual word for "silver," superseding argento via shortening of *plata d'argento "plate of silver, coin." Meaning "table utensils" (originally of silver or gold only) is from Middle English. Meaning "shallow dish for food," now usually of china or earthenware, originally of metal or wood, is from mid-15c. Baseball sense is from 1857. Geological sense is first attested 1904; plate tectonics first recorded 1969. Plate-glass first recorded 1727.

plate (v.)

late 14c., from plate (n.). Related: Plated; plating.

dish, plate

这两个名词都可表示"盘子"之意。

dish： 是盘子的总称。

plate： 指供个人分菜食用的盘子。

Even simple visual cues, like plate size and fighting, have been shown to affect portion size and consumption.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Small dishes, shared meals and "mixing it up" is not something commonly done in Britain, but Yorkshire Pudding will bring full dishes to the table and offer individual plates for each diner.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Yorkshire Pudding is a restaurant which will bring full dishes to the table but offer plates to those diners who would like to share their meals

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

In the areas where one plate is beneath another, stress builds up over time.

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In the same plate, Merian depicted and described leaf-cutter ants for the first time.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

It was caused by a megathrust event as the India plate moved beneath the Burma micro-plate.

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Megathrusts are created in earthquake zones-land plate boundaries where two plates converge.

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Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

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Companies produce thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

2015年高考英语安徽卷 完形填空 原文

Determined, dad filled our plates with steaming stew and passed them around.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

She also operates a website, where she shares her tips and recipes, with the goal of demonstrating that everyone has the ability to control what's on their plate.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Take visual hints that influence what we eat: diners served themselves about 20 percent more pasta when their plates matched their food.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

We eat about 22 percent more when using a 12-inch plate instead of a 10-inch plate.

2015年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

When a dark-colored cake was served on a black plate rather than a white one, customers recognized it as sweeter and more tasty.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

sandwiches on a plate

盘子上的三明治

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a pile of dirty plates

一摞脏盘子

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dinner plates

餐盘

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a plate of sandwiches

一盘三明治

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two large plates of pasta

两大盘意大利面食

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Try the seafood plate.

请尝尝这道海鲜。

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The tanks were mainly constructed of steel plates.

这些坦克车主要是用钢板制造的。

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She had a metal plate inserted in her arm.

她的胳膊里嵌着一块接骨板。

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A brass plate beside the door said ‘Dr Alan Tate ’.

门旁的铜牌上写着“艾伦·泰特医生”。

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The cutlery is plate, not solid silver.

这套餐具是镀银的，不是纯银的。

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the armadillo's protective shell of bony plates

犰狳的一层防护性鳞甲

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the Pacific plate

太平洋板块

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Earthquakes are caused by two tectonic plates bumping into each other.

地震是由两块地壳构造板块互相碰撞造成的。

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The book includes 55 colour plates.

本书有55幅彩色插图。

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See plate 4.

见彩图4。

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a printing plate

印版

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a silver ring plated with gold

一枚镀金的银戒指

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The walls of the vault were plated with steel.

保险库的墙壁都装了钢板。

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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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...dusty-looking cars with New Jersey plates.

落满灰尘、挂着新泽西州牌照的汽车

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...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

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Fermor's book has 55 colour plates.

弗莫尔的书里有55页整版彩色插图。

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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。

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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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

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They just handed the game to the other team on a plate.

他们让另一支球队轻易地赢得了这场比赛.

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He quickly ate everything on his plate and asked for seconds.

他很快地把他盘里的东西吃光,然后又要第二份.

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