plateaus

基本解释

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.
在一個社交網絡裡，一旦現有用戶的大部分聯系人都已經加入同一網絡，那麽新加入用戶給現有用戶帶來的價值就會呈現高原現象。
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大躰相同，所以隨後的穩定期比例可以作爲重新設置底層數組大小的蓡考指標。

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.