plateaus

基本解释

There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
也许会有停滞不前的时候，但是你不要满足现状，你必须要超过这一阶段！
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.
在一个社交网络里，一旦现有用户的大部分联系人都已经加入同一网络，那么新加入用户给现有用户带来的价值就会呈现高原现象。
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.
因为每个计划项增加的字符串长度总数大体相同，所以随后的稳定期比例可以作为重新设置底层数组大小的参考指标。

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.