fallow

大学 FREQ #40574

n. 休耕地 a. 休耕的, 淡棕色的

发音

UK /ˈfæləʊ/
其它
US /ˈfæloʊ/

词形变化

fallows 复数 fallows fallowed falloweth fallowing fallows 三单 fallowing 现在分词 fallowed 过去式 fallowed 过去分词 more fallow 比较级 most fallow 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

休耕地；休耕

动词

使（土地）休闲；潜伏

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Ground ploughed and harrowed but left unseeded for one year.

    休耕地

    不可数 植物学 商务 可数
  2. 2.

    Uncultivated land.

    荒地

    不可数 植物学 商务 可数
  3. 3.

    The ploughing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To make land fallow for agricultural purposes.

    及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Ploughed but left unseeded for more than one planting season.

  2. 2.

    Left unworked and uncropped for some amount of time.

  3. 3.

    Inactive; undeveloped.

    比喻

    a fallow period in one's career

  4. 1.

    Of a pale red or yellow, light brown; dun.

    a fallow deer or greyhound

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

farmland ploughland plowland tillage tilth
形容词

近义相关 5

unbroken undeveloped unexploited unploughed unplowed

相关短语

fallow deer 欧洲淡黄色鹿 fallow crop fallow crops fallow syndrome green fallow 种植绿肥作物的休闲地 winter fallow summer fallow

词源

[Alt: A photograph of a ploughed field.] From Middle English falwe, from Old English fealh, fealg (“fallow land”), from Proto-West Germanic *falgu (compare Saterland Frisian Falge, West Frisian falig, felling, Dutch valg, German Felge), from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ (“arable land”) (compare Gaulish olca, Russian полоса́ (polosá)).

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