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

• 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。
• Alternate strips planted to crops each year serve as windbreaks for the fallow strip.
  每年播种作物的轮种带可用作休耕带的防风林。
• After producing crops on the field for many years, we let it lie fallow now.
  我们在这块田里种庄稼己好多年了，现在我们要让它休耕。
• The farmer kept his cows in a fallow field.
  那农民把他的奶牛放在休闲地里。
• 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？
• This is not normally same business, more be liked like a kind or lie fallow.
  这不是通常一样的生意，更像一种爱好或者休闲。
• 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。
• Bush fallow: Poor quality land covered with scrubBy vegetation.
  灌木林修耕地，灌木林闲地：灌木丛生的劣质土地。
• 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。