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单词 fertile
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fertile
(fɜːʳtaɪl , US -təl )
1. adjective
Land or soil that is fertile is able to support the growth of a large number of strong healthy plants.
...fertile soil.
...the rolling fertile countryside of East Cork.
Synonyms: productive, rich, flowering, lush  
fertility (fɜːʳtɪlɪti ) uncountable noun
He was able to bring large sterile acreages back to fertility.
Synonyms: fruitfulness, abundance, richness, fecundity  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
A fertile mind or imagination is able to produce a lot of good, original ideas.
...a product of Flynn's fertile imagination.
A chess player must have a fertile imagination and rich sense of fantasy.
Synonyms: creative, productive, prolific, inventive  
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
A situation or environment that is fertile in relation to a particular activity or feeling encourages the activity or feeling.
...a fertile breeding ground for disharmony of one kind or another.
4. adjective
A person or animal that is fertile is able to reproduce and have babies or young.
The operation cannot be reversed to make her fertile again.
Synonyms: able to conceive, able to reproduce, able to have children, able to have babies  
fertility uncountable noun
Doctors will tell you that pregnancy is the only sure test for fertility.
Synonyms: ability to conceive, potency, ability to have children, ability to have babies  
Collocations:
fertile ground for
Which undeniably is fertile ground for post-prandial discussion.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The Russian Revolution has proven itself to be fertile ground for allegory and myth.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
This is fertile ground for the public 's discontent.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There is also fertile ground for serial entrepreneurs outside these industries.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
As we saw in the last chapter, this is fertile ground for a modelling project.
O'Connor, Joseph & Seymour, John Training with N.L.P. (1994)
fertile land
Political stability over a large and fertile land aided economic growth, and the government took a direct role in encouraging both agriculture and industry.
Stearns, Peter N. World History: Patterns of Change and Continuity (1995)
The rich and well-drained soil there provides particularly fertile land.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
All of what we are began in that fertile land between the two great rivers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The country is blessed with huge amounts of fertile land and rich mineral deposits.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
A strip of fertile land runs along the river and life here has changed little over the centuries.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
fertile mind
His fertile mind could not help bubbling over into other subjects.
The Times Literary Supplement
Hopeful and helpful, these are fine minor works by an acute and fertile mind.
Times, Sunday Times
Her fertile mind found an outlet in teasing - not difficult in my case as the slightest hint of pathos was guaranteed to bring tears.
Times, Sunday Times
Having a fertile mind, he set about inventing a system to change that.
Times, Sunday Times
History doesn't record whether the deal really occurred at the table or was the construction of a fertile mind.
Times, Sunday Times
fertile plain
The seaside resort was little more than an easy hour across the flat, fertile plain.
Times, Sunday Times
It lies in a fertile plain surrounded by hills, with the sea to the southwest.
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Flowing out of the mountains, it forms the center of a broad, fertile plain in the south-central portion of the island.
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As the lake drained away its bed became peatlands and a fertile plain.
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Situated in a fertile plain, main products are fresh fruits and vegetables.
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fertile region
This town can be called a fertile region of education.
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Already, in the most fertile regions, overuse of water, mainly for agriculture, has led to sinking water tables.
Times, Sunday Times
In fertile regions the infield could be extensive, but in the uplands it might be small, surrounded by large amounts of outfield.
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Fertile regions which bear conceptacles are known as receptacles.
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By particularly fertile regions, the larger villages arose.
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fertile soil
They prefer full sun and moist, fertile soil.
The Sun (2009)
Where is the fertile soil from yesterday to plant tomorrow's ideas?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Just make sure you have a sunny spot with fertile soil.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
What is it about ministry that can be fertile soil for this kind of sin?
Christianity Today (2000)
fertile source of
Last week's show confirmed that the city remains an extraordinarily fertile source of talent.
Times, Sunday Times
Cultural differences can be a very fertile source of amusement.
Times, Sunday Times
These were always fertile sources of legal and political dispute among users of streams in the early modern period.
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fertile terrain
A good conversation lies in the fertile terrain somewhere between the banter of old friends or partners and the direction-driven exchanges of people in a professional context.
Times, Sunday Times
The scenic and fertile terrain features many palm trees.
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By 1527, the village consisted of 35 inhabited buildings, yet the lack of potable water, relative distance to fertile terrains and principal roadways, resulted in the castle's progressive abandon.
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fertile territory
The closing stages are a much more fertile territory with wickets in hand.
Times, Sunday Times
Food and nutritional health have long provided fertile territory for enthusiasts of self-experimentation for obvious reasons.
Times, Sunday Times
If they succeed, they will be opening their first shop in fertile territory.
Times, Sunday Times
As usual, the great filing system under the bed proves fertile territory for unpaid credit card bills, parking tickets and lost cheque books.
Times, Sunday Times
New regulations in any industry are always a challenge and fertile territory for the lawyers.
Times, Sunday Times
fertile valley
This 'idler in the fertile valley', to borrow the title of one of his books, was gracious as well as caustic.
Times, Sunday Times
After trying many types of agricultural crops, the settlers found the warm fertile valley to be ideally suited for viticulture.
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This line opened in 1887 to provide access to a fertile valley.
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As of now, they are almost expelled from the fertile valley floor.
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Also in the fertile valley surrounding the river, millions of scarlet anemones bloom.
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Translations:
Chinese: 肥沃的
Japanese: 繁殖力のある
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