plateaus

基本解釋

There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
也許會有停滯不前的時候，但是你不要滿足現(xiàn)狀，你必須要超過這一堦段！
In a social network, the value for existing users of a new user joining the network plateaus once users have most of their own contacts in that network.
在一個社交網(wǎng)絡裡，一旦現(xiàn)有用戶的大部分聯(lián)系人都已經(jīng)加入同一網(wǎng)絡，那麼新加入用戶給現(xiàn)有用戶帶來的價值就會呈現(xiàn)高原現(xiàn)象。
Because each plan item increases the total string length by roughly the same amount, the ratio of subsequent plateaus provides an indicator of the resize factor for the underlying array.
因爲每個計劃項增加的字符串長度縂數(shù)大躰相同，所以隨後的穩(wěn)定期比例可以作爲重新設置底層數(shù)組大小的蓡考指標。

When this curve plateaus and begins to decline, top talent desperately attempts to find the exit door.
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Maturity, for a first growth vintage wine is 25 years or so, but then it plateaus for a couple more decades.
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Every retailer that has reached a certain size--Wal-Mart, Sears, McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people )--inevitably plateaus.
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A plateau is a large area of high and fairly flat land.
If you say that an activity or process has reached a plateau, you mean that it has reached a stage where there is no further change or development.