fallow.
休耕,休耕期,休耕地,休牧
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Definitions
adj.adjective · 形容词
- 1.
- › plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- ›not in use; inactive: My creative energies have lain fallow this year.
n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›land that has undergone plowing and harrowing and has been left unseeded for one or more growing seasons.
v.verb · 有主动词
- 1.
- ›to make fallow for agricultural purposes.
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Examples
There are reports of farmers allowing fields to go fallow this spring because there probably will not be enough water to sustain some crops through the season.
If their dispute is not resolved in the next few weeks, Crummell could remain fallow for years to come.
If their dispute is not resolved in the next few weeks, Crummell could remain fallow for years to come, a prospect that infuriates residents such as Brenda Ingram, who lives down the street, in a house next door to where she grew up.
By allowing fields to lie fallow, or planting cover crops, they can return nutrients to the soil.
Hachimura had 17 points but, like Beal, was fallow from beyond the arc, missing his three attempts.
The mobilizing energy of the campaign fell fallow after Inauguration Day in 2009.
Many of the signs posted on the fields that are supposed to be left fallow now litter the road ditches.
But cider production and consumption is on the rise after a long fallow period.
Professionally, Vidal's last decade while not fallow was not golden.
For the next three decades the team lay , promising much, achieving nothing.