plastic

plastic

noun

1. a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered

e.g. do you take plastic?

Synonym: credit cardcharge cardcharge plate

2. generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives

adj

1. forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

e.g. a formative influence
a formative experience

Synonym: formativeshaping

2. capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material)

e.g. plastic substances such as wax or clay

Synonym: fictilemoldable

3. capable of being influenced or formed

e.g. the plastic minds of children
a pliant nature

Synonym: pliant

1. 塑料
Plastic is a material which is produced from oil by a chemical process and which is used to make many objects. It is light in weight and does not break easily.

e.g. ...a wooden crate, sheltered from wetness by sheets of plastic...
用塑料薄膜防潮的木板箱
e.g. A lot of the plastics that carmakers are using cannot be recycled.
汽车制造商使用的许多塑料制品是无法回收利用的。

2. 不自然的；不真实的
If you describe something as plastic, you mean that you think it looks or tastes unnatural or not real.

e.g. ...plastic airline food...
航班上味同嚼蜡的食品
e.g. When girls put on too much eye-shadow, they look plastic.
女孩子如果把眼影涂得过重，看起来就不自然了。

3. （塑料制）信用卡
If you use plastic or plastic money to pay for something, you pay for it with a credit card instead of using cash.

e.g. Using plastic to pay for an order is simplicity itself.
用信用卡支付订单是很简单的事。
e.g. ...shopping with their plastic money.
用他们的信用卡购物

4. 可塑的；塑性的
Something that is plastic is soft and can easily be made into different shapes.

e.g. The mud is smooth, gray, soft, and plastic as butter.
这种泥浆呈灰色，它光滑、柔软，像黄油一样易塑。

1. plastic

1. 可塑性：我们现在知道,固态的地壳只有数十公里厚,在它以下是具高度 可塑性(plastic)的地幔(manile),而后者所包覆的,则是以铁 (占90%)为主的地核(core),它基本上是一个半径为3,480公里 (约为地球半径的55%)的球体.