1
- a plan made in secret by a group of people to do something illegal or harmful阴谋, 密谋：
with infinitive there's a plot to overthrow the government.有一个企图推翻政府的阴谋。
2
- the main events of a play, novel, film, or similar work, devised and presented by the writer as an interrelated sequence（戏剧、小说、电影等的）情节。
3
- a small piece of ground marked out for a purpose such as building or gardening（用于建筑或园林的）小块地, 苗圃：
a vegetable plot.
一块菜地。
4
- a graph showing the relation between two variables（表现两个变量关系的）图表。
4.1
- chiefly US a diagram, chart, or map〈主美〉图表; 地图。
(plotted, plotting)with obj.
1
- secretly make plans to carry out (an illegal or harmful action)密谋, 策划, 计划（非法或有害活动）：
the two men are serving sentences for plotting a bomb campaign
这两人现正因策划爆炸行动而服刑
no obj. brother plots against brother.手足相谋。
2
- devise the sequence of events in (a play, novel, film, or similar work)设计（戏剧、小说、电影等）的情节。
3
- mark (a route or position) on a chart（在图表上）画, 标记（线路或位置）：
he started to plot lines of ancient sites.
他开始在图表上标记古遗址的轮廓。
3.1
- mark out or allocate (points) on a graph在图表上标记, 布置。
3.2
- make (a curve) by marking out a number of such points标记点以画（曲线）。
3.3
- illustrate by use of a graph用图表说明：
it is possible to plot fairly closely the rate at which recruitment of girls increased.
相当接近地用图表说明女兵数量增加的速度是有可能做得到的。
短语
lose the plot
- informal lose one's ability to understand or cope with what is happening〈非正式〉丧失理解能力, 无能为力：
many people believe that he is feeling the strain or has lost the plot.
许多人认为他正经历巨大压力或者已经无能为力了。
the plot thickens
- 见THICKEN.
派生词
plotless
adjectiveplotter
noun词源
late Old English (in sense 3 of the noun)， of unknown origin. The sense 'secret plan'， dating from the late 16th cent., is associated with Old French complot 'dense crowd， secret project'， the same term being used occasionally in English from the mid 16th cent. Compare with PLAT1.