strata: [16] Latin strātum meant ‘something laid down’. It was a noun use of the neuter past participle of sternere ‘spread out, lay down, stretch out’, which also produced English consternation [17] and prostrate [14]. Its use for the abstract concept of a ‘layer’ (in English more usually in the plural strata) is a modern Latin development. Other English words from the same source include stratify [17], stratosphere [20] (the ‘layer’ of the atmosphere above the troposphere), stratus [19] (cloud in thin ‘layer’- like form), and street. => consternation, prostrate, straw, street
strata (n.)
c. 1700, plural of stratum.
strata 双语例句
1. The rebels came overwhelmingly from the poorest strata of rural society.
叛乱分子绝大多数来自农村的最贫困阶层。
来自柯林斯例句
2. people from all social strata
来自不同社会阶层的人
来自《权威词典》
3. The older strata gradually disintegrate.
较老的岩层渐渐风化.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4. Mostly applying the STRATA velocity inversion section predicts the distributed field of reefs depth.
