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单词 fallow
释义
fallow
(fæloʊ )
1. adjective
Fallow land has been dug or ploughed but nothing has been planted in it, especially so that its quality or strength has a chance to improve.
...great red barns in empty fallow fields.
The fields lay fallow.
Synonyms: uncultivated, unused, undeveloped, unplanted  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A fallow period is a time when very little is being achieved.
There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.
Synonyms: inactive, resting, idle, dormant  
Collocations:
fallow field
The tenants pastured their livestock on the fallow field and on the planted fields after harvest.
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Observant farmers are allowed only to maintain their fields, and fruits and vegetables that grow in fallow fields are free for anyone to pick.
Times, Sunday Times
It would take me quite a while to realise that my dream of finding pastures new would turn out to be a life led in fallow fields.
Times, Sunday Times
Crop rotation plays an important role in replenishing soil nutrients, especially atmospheric nitrogen converted to usable forms by nitrogen-fixing plants used in fallow fields.
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The pale beige rectangles around the perimeter of this image are probably crops or fallow fields.
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fallow land
These are hardy, pleasantly aromatic annuals, growing along roadsides in ruderal communities and in fallow land rich in nutrients.
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Families began increasing the amount of time at work, bringing fallow land into use.
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Repartition was usually carried out on the fallow land only, to avoid disrupting land under cultivation.
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The farm should have little fallow land and a large farmhouse built of high quality material.
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The primary habitats are everything but dense forests, such as meadows, heath lands, and fallow land.
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fallow period
That relatively fallow period did not appear costly during the mid-innings break.
Times, Sunday Times
It has all the hallmarks of a show desperate to prove itself after a fallow period of so-so acts and mediocre judges.
The Sun
Neither has really endured a fallow period, but the worries of the acting profession seem perennial.
Times, Sunday Times
They arrived within 12 minutes, then a fallow period of ten minutes until the fifth.
Times, Sunday Times
And what we found was this amazing natural sculptor, full of pent-up energy after the long fallow period.
Times, Sunday Times
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