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

• The land lay fallow for a year.
  这块地已经休耕一年了。
• 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。
• I plan to do to lie fallow kind game, do not know to rely on chart not?
  我打算做一个休闲类的游戏，不知道靠谱不？
• Level terrace in Chunhua was the system studied object, fallow sloping field was the check, and their soil moisture variety was dynamic monitored.
  以淳化试区的水平梯田为系统研究对象，休闲坡地为对照，对其剖面土壤水分变化进行动态监测。
• All his farm is in fallow.
  他所有的农田都未耕种。
• Fields are improved by lying fallow at times.
  田地经过不时的休耕可得到改良。
• 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。
• Effects of different tillage practices in summer fallow period on soil water and crop water use efficiency in semi-arid areas
  半干旱区夏闲期不同耕作方式对土壤水分及小麦水分利用效率的影响
• Furthermore, his mind was fallow.
  而且他的心灵已长期休耕。
• The nap that followed, taken in a fallow field shaded by a giant oak, was vivid with dreams.
  之后，我在一片休耕地上，在一棵巨大橡树的绿荫下小憩了片刻，梦中的情景栩栩如生。