昂立外语【新概念培训】分享的小词plate,今天我们来看看plate的有趣用法吧。新二下的2篇课文出现过，比如：L40 Food and Talk （Her eyes were fixed on her plate.）

再比如：L77 A successful Operation （As there were strange marks on the X-ray plates taken of the mummy.\They also found something which the X-ray plates did not show…）

plate的意思有很多哟，不妨先来看看以下这则新闻：

Title：Registration plate sells for a record ￡500,000 in Wales

 A personal registration plate has been sold at auction for ￡518,000, setting a new British record.
 
Registration "25 O" was sold by the Swansea-based DVLA during the event at The Vale Resort, in Vale of Glamorgan.
 
The DVLA has raised more than ￡2bn for the Treasury in 25 years of selling personalized registration plates.

大家来思考和总结一下，plate的用法吧~~

        ① 盘子、碟子：A plate is a round or oval flat dish that is used to hold food.

    e.g. a huge plate of eggs 

② 照片底片 ：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.

   e.g. N2L77课中的plates就是解释为“照片底片”的意思。

③（书中的）整版插图：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.
   e.g. This book has 60 plates

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④ (金或银制) 餐具：Plate is dishes, bowls, and cups that are made of precious metal, especially silver or gold.
  e.g. gold and silver plate, jewellery, and roomfuls of antique furniture

⑤（地质学中的大陆）板块 :In geology, a plate is a large piece of the earth's surface, perhaps as large as a continent, which moves very slowly.

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

⑥ 车牌、注册牌 ：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.

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

现在明白新闻中registration plate的意思了吧~

再来看看关于plate的词组：

have too much on one’s plate：In other words, it means that one has a lot of things to deal with or a lot of work to do.

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

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