night soil
夜晚的土壤,夜间土壤,夜里的土壤,晚间土壤
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- : human excrement collected and used as fertilizer.
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The decree touted the achievement of the progressive residents of Jiangnan Province who diligently collected their night soil from the cities and brought it to the farmers in the countryside.
In pre-industrial Japan, Osaka’s city authorities discussed a complaint stating that ships coming to the city harbor to ferry out their night soil stunk too much.
People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.
As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.
At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Are you bi-coastal now, between Portlandia and Late Night with Seth Meyers?
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
Eggs and nestlings were found lying on the bare soil at the inner ends of the burrows; no nesting material was found.
Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.
This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.