昂立外語【新概念培訓】分享的小詞plate,今天我們來看看plate的有趣用法吧。新二下的2篇課文出現過，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的意思有很多喲，不妨先來看看以下這則新聞：
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.
大家來思考和總結一下，plate的用法吧~~
① 盤子、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課中的plates就是解釋為“照片底片”的意思。
③（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.
e.g. This book has 60 plates
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④ (金或銀制) 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.
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 車牌、注冊牌 ：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.
現在明白新聞中registration plate的意思了吧~
再來看看關于plate的詞組：
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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