plates的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-COUNT盤；碟

A plate is a round or oval flat dish that is used to hold food.

• Anita pushed her plate away; she had eaten virtually nothing.

  安妮塔把自己的盤子推開;她幾乎什麼都沒吃。

N-COUNT（尤指用於機械或建築上金屬製的）平板，薄板

A plate is a flat piece of metal, especially on machinery or a building.

N-COUNT（通常置於辦公室或住宅門邊上的）金屬姓名牌

A plate is 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.

N-PLURAL（車輛的）號碼牌，牌照

On a road vehicle, the plates are the panels at the front and back which display the license number in the United States, and the registration number in Britain.

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

  落滿灰塵、掛著新澤西州牌照的汽車

N-UNCOUNT（尤指銀或金質的）餐具

Plate is dishes, bowls, and cups that are made of precious metal, especially silver or gold.

• ...gold and silver plate, jewellery, and roomfuls of antique furniture.

  金銀餐具、珠寶，還有整屋整屋的古董傢俱

N-COUNT（印刷用的）印版，圖版

In printing, a plate is a sheet of metal which is carved or specially treated with chemicals so that it can be used to print text or pictures.

N-COUNT（攝影中的）感光板，（玻璃）幹版

In photography, a plate is 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（書中的）整版插圖

A plate in 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.

• Fermor's book has 55 colour plates.

  弗莫爾的書裡有55頁整版彩色插圖。

N-COUNT（顯微鏡下的長方形）載物片，玻璃片

In a microscope, the plate is 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.

N-COUNT假牙託；（牙）託基

A dental plate is 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（地質學中的大陸）板塊

In geology, a plate is a large piece of the earth's surface, perhaps as large as a continent, which moves very slowly.

• The United States Geological Survey has revealed that the earthquake was not caused by a simple horizontal movement of one plate past another.

  美國地質調查局揭示了此次地震並非由大陸板塊間簡單的水平交錯運動所引起。

N-COUNT（棒球運動中）the plate 同 home plate

In baseball, the plate is the same as the home plate.

PHRASE有很多工作要做；有很多事要處理

If you have enough on your plate or have a lot on your plate, you have a lot of work to do or a lot of things to deal with.

• We have enough on our plate. There is plenty of work to be done on what we have.

  我們有很多工作要做。僅是手頭現有的事情就已經有的忙了。

PHRASE把…拱手奉送給

If you say that someone has things handed to them on a plate, you disapprove of them because they get good things easily.

• Even the presidency was handed to him on a plate.

  他甚至連總統之位都是得來全不費工夫。