plate是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve food from -- 盤子，碟子

  • paper/plastic/china plates 紙／塑膠／瓷碟

  • a dinner/salad plate 餐碟／沙拉碟

  • clean/dirty plates 乾淨／髒的碟子

  • There's still lots of food on your plate. 你的盤子裡還有很多食物。

  • Stephen ate three plates of spaghetti. 史蒂芬吃了三盤義大利麵條。

• 1 a flat piece of something that is hard and does not bend -- 平板；板條；板材

  • Thick bony plates protected the dinosaur against attack. 厚厚的骨質鱗甲幫助恐龍抵禦攻擊。

  • The ship's deck is composed of steel plates. 該船的甲板由鋼板製成。

• 2 a picture, especially in colour, in a book -- （書籍的）插圖，彩色插圖

  • The three birds differ in small features (see Plate 4). 這三隻鳥的細微特徵有所區別（見插圖4）。

• 3 informal for home plate -- （棒球運動中的）本壘板（home plate的非正式說法）

• 4 ordinary metal with a layer of another metal on top -- 表面有鍍層的金屬製品

  • The knives and forks are silver plate. 這些刀叉是鍍銀的。

  • The thieves got away with a large quantity of church plate. 竊賊偷走了教堂中大量餐具。

• 5 to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver -- 鍍上；用（金、銀等）電鍍

  • We normally plate the car handles with nickel and then chrome. 我們通常先用鎳再用鉻來鍍汽車的把手。