fallow 详细解释

fallow

['fæləu]

adj.休耕的, 不活跃的
n.休耕地, 休耕
v.使休耕

a.

1. (田地等)休耕的

The farmer left the land fallow for a year.

这位农民让田地休耕一年。

2. 不活跃的, 不旺盛的

n.

休耕地; 休耕[U][S]

词形变化

名词: fallowness | 动词过去式: fallowed | 动词过去分词: fallowed | 动词现在分词: fallowing | 动词第三人称单数: fallows |

词义辨析

同义:

a.休闲的; 未开垦的

unprepared  uncultivated  idle  unproductive  

英英释义

名词 fallow:

cultivated land that is not seeded for one or more growing seasons

形容词 fallow:

left unplowed and unseeded during a growing season

undeveloped but potentially useful

补充

fallowfallow英:[ˈfæləu] 美:[ˈfælo]adj.1.犁过而未播种的, 休闲的2.(指耕地)未经耕作的n.1.休闲地, 休耕地

例句

1. great red barns in empty fallow fields空旷的休耕地上的红色大谷仓 2. The fields lay fallow.这些田地在休耕。 3. There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.接着出现了一段没活儿干的空闲期, 然后在夏季又有了一份工作。 4. incentives for farmers to let land lie fallow in order to reduce grain surpluses.为减少粮食剩余而让农民休耕土地的激励措施。 5. long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen.似乎不会发生任何事情的漫长而沉闷的时期。 6. fallow land/fields休耕地/田 7. allowing several fields to lie fallow让几块大田处于休耕状态 8. a writer who has been going through a fallow period [=a period in which he has done no writing]已经辍笔一段时间的作家 9. There were too many promising ideas lying fallow [=not being used] at the company.公司有太多好点子没有被派上用场。