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fallow

/fal-oh/US // ˈfæl oʊ //UK // (ˈfæləʊ) //

休耕,休耕期,休耕地,休牧

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
    • : not in use; inactive: My creative energies have lain fallow this year.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make fallow for agricultural purposes.

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Examples

  • There are reports of farmers allowing fields to go fallow this spring because there probably will not be enough water to sustain some crops through the season.

  • If their dispute is not resolved in the next few weeks, Crummell could remain fallow for years to come.

  • If their dispute is not resolved in the next few weeks, Crummell could remain fallow for years to come, a prospect that infuriates residents such as Brenda Ingram, who lives down the street, in a house next door to where she grew up.

  • By allowing fields to lie fallow, or planting cover crops, they can return nutrients to the soil.

  • Hachimura had 17 points but, like Beal, was fallow from beyond the arc, missing his three attempts.

  • The mobilizing energy of the campaign fell fallow after Inauguration Day in 2009.

  • Many of the signs posted on the fields that are supposed to be left fallow now litter the road ditches.

  • But cider production and consumption is on the rise after a long fallow period.

  • Professionally, Vidal's last decade while not fallow was not golden.

  • For the next three decades the team lay fallow, promising much, achieving nothing.

  • In no farm, however, is the fallow laid aside; it is considered as indispensable for wheat, and on poor lands for rye.

  • This appears clear from Aristotle placing the bubalus with the stags and fallow deer, and not with the oxen.

  • There are many herds of them in the royal menagerie; and they produce together as freely as the fallow-deer.

  • It would be a difficult point to determine the original species of the fallow-deer.

  • The smallest roe-bucks are generally of a fallow colour, and the largest brown.

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