1.plantation n.栽植(a usually large group of plants and especially trees under cultivation)
词根记忆:来自plant(v.种植)
例:Newly freed workers enacted lien laws to hasten the downfall of the plantation economy.
同根词:plantlet(n.小植物,苗木)
2.plateau n.(上升后的)平台期(a level of attainment or achievement);v.达到平台期(to reach a level period, or condition of stability or maximum attainment)
词根记忆:plat(平)+eau--平台期
例:When my sales hit a plateau ,my boss gave me a pep talk(鼓舞士气的讲话).//Her fever plateaued at 103 degrees, and then began to fall.
3.platform n.平台(a usually raised horizontal flat surface operating system)
词根记忆:plat(平的)+form(外形)--平台
例:operating platform操作平台
4.plausible a.似是而非的,貌似有理的(superficially fair reasonable, or valuable but often specious)
联想记忆:plaus(鼓掌)+ible--鼓掌的--看似有理,所以鼓掌--貌似有理的
例:Of the two plausible explanations for the decline in the population of sea otters, disease is the more likely one.
同根词:plaudit(n.称赞);applause(n.鼓掌)
5.plead v.作为辩护或理由提出(to offer as a plea usually in defence)
例:The defendant pled no contest to criminal charges.
6.pledge n./v.保证;许诺(to promise the performance of)
例:A $ 100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence was pledged by the government.
7.plot n.小块土地(a small land);计划(plan);情节(story)
例:experimental plot实验田
8.plow/plough n.犁(an implement used to cut, lift, and turn over soil especially in preparing a seedbed);v.费力穿过(to move through)
联想记忆:pl+ough(看作tough坚硬的)--在坚硬的土地上犁--犁;费力穿过
例:The ship plowed through the waves.
9.plume n.(一)股,(一)团(尘、火、水等)(a cloud of sth. that rises and cures upwards in the air);羽毛(a large feather);(从火出或烟道喷出的)岩浆柱 (any of several columns of molten rock rising from the earth's lower mantle)
例:The surface mark of an established plume is a hot spot-an isolated region of volcanoes and uplifted terrain located far from the edge of a surface plate.