plot
- IPA[plät]
美式
- a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful；the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence
- secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)；devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, movie, or similar work)
verb: plot, 3rd person present: plots, gerund or present participle: plotting, past tense: plotted, past participle: plotted
noun: plot, plural noun: plots
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名詞
- 1. a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful they have been jailed for their part in a plot to defraud a Swiss bank 同義詞
- 2. the main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence the plot consists almost entirely of a man and woman falling in love he outlined his idea for a movie plot 同義詞
- 3. a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening a vegetable plot 同義詞
- 4. a graph showing the relation between two variables.
- ▪ US a diagram, chart, or map.
動詞
- 1. secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action) the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign Erica has been plotting against me all along 同義詞
- 2. devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, movie, or similar work) she would plot a chapter as she drove in a crime story you have to plot carefully to achieve the surprise at the end
- 3. mark (a route or position) on a chart he started to plot lines of ancient sites 同義詞
- ▪ mark out or allocate (points) on a graph the dependent variable's points are plotted on the Y axis
- ▪ make (a curve) by marking out a number of points on a graph a cooling curve is plotted and the freezing point determined
- ▪ illustrate by use of a graph it is possible to plot fairly closely the rate at which recruitment of girls increased
- an inconsistency in the narrative or character development of a book, film, television show, etc.: there are a few plot holes and some moments of serious implausibility
Oxford American Dictionary
- an unexpected development in a book, film, television program, etc.: I won't give the big plot twist away
Oxford American Dictionary
- an inconsistency in the narrative or character development of a book, film, television ... there are a few plot holes and some moments of serious implausibility
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- an unexpected development in a book, film, television programme, etc.: I won't give the big plot twist away
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- a fictitious Jesuit plot concocted by Titus Oates in 1678, involving a plan to kill Charles II, ...
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- a fictitious Jesuit plot concocted by Titus Oates in 1678, involving a plan to kill Charles II, ...
Oxford Dictionary
- used to refer to the phenomenon in fiction whereby the main character is allowed to survive ... I do think that he can't die since the inevitable plot armour is far too thick you may have discerned that they are protected by some pretty strong plot armour
Oxford Dictionary
- the course or main features of a narrative such as the plot of a play, novel, or movie: the plot line might be too complex for audiences to follow
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英式
- a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful: they have been jailed for their part in a plot to defraud a Swiss bank
- secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action): the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign brother plots against brother
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