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arable

/ar-uh-buhl/US // ˈær ə bəl //UK // (ˈærəbəl) //

耕种,可耕种的,耕种的,耕作

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of producing crops; suitable for farming; suited to the plow and for tillage: arable land; arable soil.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : land that can be or is cultivated.

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Examples

  • The open data initiative that covered the period between 2018 and 2020, disclosed more forests and arable lands than were previously detected.

  • Yet in Burkina Faso, arable land and their natural water supplies are drying up at a terrifying rate, making it next to impossible for families that have farmed the earth for generations to feed their children.

  • We wanted to look for a more sustainable way of farming with the growing city population, and less arable land.

  • I wanted to find a more efficient way to use land and resources so that we could let more arable areas remain wild, or to remain lower production but allow for greater biodiversity.

  • This was matched by an increasing ability to redirect water supplies and tap into aquifers, helping turn some arid regions into fertile arable land.

  • Water, food and arable land will be more scarce, cities more crowded and hunger more widespread.

  • You will, by accident listening to the show, become an expert-not-really in matters of arable farming, organic crops, and milking.

  • Extensive tracts of good arable land exist in many parts of the Acadian region.

  • Chief among the causes of the misery of the peasants was the extent to which arable land was converted into pasture.

  • Reducing more and more that famishing dog-kennel of a Brandenburg into a fruitful arable field.

  • The idleness of arable and pasture land is as nothing compared to the idleness of the wide, rolling downs.

  • One of these, with the adjacent domain of arable fields and woods, had the name of a villa or manse.