plan: [18] A plan is etymologically a design that has been ‘planted’ on the ground. Indeed in French, from which English acquired the word, it was originally plant, and was not altered to plan until the 16th century, under the influence of plan ‘flat’ (source of English plane ‘flat’). It was a derivative of the verb planter ‘plant’, and originally referred to the laying-out of the ground plan of a building. The metaphor seems first to have arisen in Italian pianta ‘ground plan’, a relative of plant, which prompted its development in French. => plant
plan (n.)
1670s as a technical term in perspective drawing; 1706 as "drawing, sketch, or diagram of any object," from French plan "ground plan, map," literally "plane surface" (mid-16c.), from Latin planum "level or flat surface," noun use of adjective planus "level, flat" (see plane (n.1)). The notion is of "a drawing on a flat surface." Meaning "scheme of action, design" is first recorded 1706, possibly influenced by French planter "to plant," from Italian planta "ground plan."
plan (v.)
1728, "make a plan of," from plan (n.). Related: Planned; planning; plans. Planned economy is attested from 1931. Planned Parenthood (1942) formerly was Birth Control Federation of America.
双语例句
1. The plan is good; the problem is it doesn't go far enough.
计划不错；问题在于不够深入。
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2. China enters a new five-year plan period next year.
中国明年开始进入新一个五年计划期。
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3. The plan hinges on a deal being struck with a new company.
该计划完全取决于正在和一家新公司洽谈着的一项交易。
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4. How much delay should we build into the plan?
我们应该为这个计划预留多少富余的时间？
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5. Petroleum engineers plan and manage the extraction of oil.