strata在英语中代表‘阶层、地层’的意思，其次还有‘层’的意思，读音为[‘streit?]，在英语中以名词出现较多，在《郎文英汉双解大词典》中，共找到18个与strata相关的近义词和例句。
1.阶层
例句:it turns out the stratosphere has winds that are going in quite different speeds and directions in thin strata.
翻译:事实上平流层的风 在不同层有不同的速度和方向。 。
来源：郎文当代初级英语辞典
2.地层
例句:These strata are the product of those billions and billions of shells.
翻译:这些地层是无数壳的产物。
来源：牛津英汉双解词典
3.层
例句:And that’s because geologists of the future would kind of see a sharp shift in the strata of rock that is being laid down now.
翻译:这样做是因为未来的地质学家 可能会在由我们现在埋下的岩层中 发现明显的转变。 。
来源：英国拉丁词典
4.医、层
例句:Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history … it’s all free to the public — unless someone else gets to it first.
翻译:Brewster Kahle正在着手构建一个巨大的数字化图书馆，那里收录了几乎所有曾经出版的书籍、电影以及各个方面的历史网页…这个数字化的图书馆对外是免费，除非有些人能在Brewster Kahle之前构建完成一个类似的图书馆。。
来源：郎文英汉双解大词典
strata一般作为名词使用，如在direction of strata(地层方向；走向)、disturbed strata(扰动地层;扰动岩层)、drift of strata(岩层水平状态)等常见短语中出现较多。
1. And that’s because geologists of the future would kind of see a sharp shift in the strata of rock that is being laid down now.
翻译:这样做是因为未来的地质学家 可能会在由我们现在埋下的岩层中 发现明显的转变。 。
2. Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library — every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history … it’s all free to the public — unless someone else gets to it first.
翻译:Brewster Kahle正在着手构建一个巨大的数字化图书馆，那里收录了几乎所有曾经出版的书籍、电影以及各个方面的历史网页…这个数字化的图书馆对外是免费，除非有些人能在Brewster Kahle之前构建完成一个类似的图书馆。。
3. Beneath this carbonized layer of skin lie immaculate strata of muscles and soft tissue.
翻译:在这层碳化的皮肤下 Beneath this carbonized layer of skin。
4. The large majority of our children belong, as i already mentioned, to the most vulnerable strata of the Venezuelan population.
翻译:如前所述，我们这个项目里大部分的孩子， 都来自委内瑞拉最穷困的阶层。 。
5. Down each avenue or via, street or strata
翻译:∮每条大街小巷里∮。
6. See, he was born when Scorpio was in the Fourth House, and that was the reason that he was bound to have lead a good and comfortable life, though born at a different strata, but the horoscope also indicates that he was not to get ancestral property,
翻译:太不可思议了 是的，这是电脑绘制的图表 他出生在狮子座。
7. The large majority of our children belong, as i already mentioned, to the most vulnerable strata of the Venezuelan population.
翻译:如前所述，我们这个项目里大部分的孩子， 都来自委内瑞拉最穷困的阶层。。
8. Thus, the water flowed between two impervious strata, pressing against the upper layer.
翻译:这样，水流动于两个密封层之间 对上层岩石造成挤压。。
9. We are hurtling towards a hyper-connected world where citizens from all cultures and all social strata will have access to smart, fast mobile devices.
翻译:我们马上会进入一个网络飞速的世界 所有国家的无论贫穷富贵 都会有一个智能移动设备 。
10. So we’re seeing a rise of this availability being driven by mobile device proliferation, globally, across all social strata.
翻译:我们见证了这个在全球世界范围内，遍及所有社交媒体， 由移动设备的普及引起的 文化可用性日益凸显。 。
11. You see, the oil-bearing strata in the area, interconnected by a surprisingly delicate structure…
翻译:区内的含油地层 由脆弱的建设连接。
12. When we talk about all the various strata of evolution, we’ll always be asking the question, there must be something before.
翻译:当我们讲到进化的不同阶段， 我们总是会问这样的问题， 因为之前肯定有别的东西存在。 。
13. Glaber’s patronage, access to the upper strata of Capua, the promise of political office.
翻译:葛雷博的提携，进入卡普亚的最高层！ 获得职位的承诺！。
14. And that’s because geologists of the future would kind of see a sharp shift in the strata of rock that is being laid down now.
翻译:这样做是因为未来的地质学家 可能会在由我们现在埋下的岩层中 发现明显的转变。。
15. Again, these are outcomes not just experienced by a few, but that resound across all strata of society.
翻译:而这些后果 不是少数人所经历的 而是会影响社会的各个阶层 。
