fallow

英 [ˈfæləʊ]

美 [ˈfæloʊ]

adj.  休耕的; 休闲的; 休眠的; 不成功的

复数：fallows　现在分词：fallowing　

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BNC.19417 / COCA.18378

牛津词典

adj.

• 休耕的；休闲的
  not used for growing crops, especially so that the quality of the land will improve
  1. Farmers are now paid to let their land lie fallow .
     农民让土地休耕现在得到了回报。
• 休闲的；休眠的；不成功的
  when nothing is created or produced; not successful
  1. Contemporary dance is coming onto the arts scene again after a long fallow period.
     当代舞蹈经过一段长时期销声匿迹以后现在又回到了艺术舞台。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ (土地)犁过而未耕种的;(尤指)休耕的
  Fallowland has been dug or ploughed but nothing has been planted in it, especially so that its quality or strength has a chance to improve.
  1. ...great red barns in empty fallow fields...
     在空荡荡的休耕田地上的巨大红色谷仓
  2. The fields lay fallow.
     田地待耕。
• ADJ (某段时期)无甚成就的，无作为的
  Afallowperiod is a time when very little is being achieved.
  1. There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.
     接着在事业上无甚起色，直到夏季有了一份工作。

英英释义

noun

• cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

adj

• undeveloped but potentially useful
  1. a fallow gold market
• left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season
  1. fallow farmland

双语例句

• The fields lay fallow.
  田地待耕。
• A primary discussion on key technologies of fluecured tobacco high-effect cultivation and interplanting in no-tillage maize field The replacement of black fallow by a more diversified crop rotation, and the use of minimum and/ or no-tillage technologies in lieu of conventional soil tillage.
  烤烟高效栽培及套种免耕玉米关键技术初探用更加多样化的轮作代替秋耕闲地，以及使用最少和/或免耕法技术代替传统的土壤耕种。
• The field was lying fallow.
  那田地正在休耕中。
• Forest fallow is an intermediate class Between forest and non-forest land uses.
  休耕林是林地和非林地的中间阶段。
• After producing crops on the field for many years, we let it lie fallow now.
  我们在这块田里种庄稼己好多年了，现在我们要让它休耕。
• I felt like the soil on some desperate sharecropper's farm, sorely overworked and needing a fallow season.
  我就像某个绝望的佃农所耕种的土壤，负担过重，亟需休耕。
• They take in fresh land in order to fallow the exhausted soil.
  他们另行耕种新土地，使耗竭的土地得到休闲。
• The farmer kept his cows in a fallow field.
  那农民把他的奶牛放在休闲地里。
• Furthermore, his mind was fallow.
  而且他的心灵已长期休耕。
• The nap that followed, taken in a fallow field shaded by a giant oak, was vivid with dreams.
  之后，我在一片休耕地上，在一棵巨大橡树的绿荫下小憩了片刻，梦中的情景栩栩如生。