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night soil

夜晚的土壤,夜间土壤,夜里的土壤,晚间土壤

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : human excrement collected and used as fertilizer.

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Examples

  • 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.