(仮)パンデミックに関する英語表現集 - 頭打ちになる、横ばいになる、停滞期に入る : plateau

日本語

頭打ちになる、横ばいになる、停滞期に入る

英語での表現&単語の場合は品詞

plateau
動詞

英語例文&出典

The weeks of locking down the country, center of the world’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak, may be starting to pay off, as officials announced this week that the numbers of new infections had plateaued.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/europe/it...


Jenny Harries, the deputy chief medical officer speaking alongside Williamson at the press conference, said this could be in part due to lower reporting rates over the weekend. Asked to predict whether the UK might have passed the peak of the crisis, she declined to “jump to all sorts of positive conclusions”, but said the data connected to hospital admissions looked as if it was “starting to plateau”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/19/pm-w...

補足・特記事項など

名詞の、高原・台地 : plateau からの転用で、(数量の増減(主として増加)が)高原状態になる、という意味で動詞で用いられる。