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

• Pluralistic sports needs satisfied people, the equalling driving the sports service lying fallow melts;
  满足人们多元的体育需求，推动休闲体育服务均等化；
• As a tennis player, agassi's maturation was both early and late, book-ending a fallow middle period.
  作为一个网球选手，阿加西的网球生涯在早期和晚期均出现低谷，中间有一段时间的休整。
• The fields lay fallow.
  田地待耕。
• Furthermore, his mind was fallow.
  而且他的心灵已长期休耕。
• This tillage practice was done by farmers to control weeds and conserve moisture during the fallow period before the wheat crop.
  农民用这种耕作措施除草并在种麦前的休闲期保墒。
• 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。
• She wrote her autobiography during a fallow period in her acting career.
  她在演艺生涯不繁忙的一段时间里写了一本自传。
• 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。
• In this moist climate, birch and aspen quickly invade their fallow potato fields;
  在这种潮湿的气候下，桦树和白杨迅速地侵入周围休耕中的马铃薯种植区；