fallow
fallow 英 [ˈfæləʊ] 美 [ˈfæloʊ]
adj. 休耕的；不活跃的 n. 休耕地；休耕 vt. 使（土地）休闲；潜伏
名词复数:fallows
- Something that is fallow is left unused. If you’re smart but lazy, someone might say you have a fallow mind.
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- adj. 休耕的；不活跃的
- n. 休耕地；休耕
- vt. 使（土地）休闲；潜伏
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1. Farmers know that soil needs rest, so they rotate their crops and systematically leave a portion of their land fallow.
农夫们知道土地是需要休息的，因此他们轮流种植农作物并系统地留一部分土地休耕。
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2. That factory lies at the end of a straight dirt road through fallow corn fields 10 miles from Gaoling.
离高陵10英里，穿过一片休耕的玉米地，在一条笔直的泥泞马路的尽头，即是这家砖厂的所在地。
- fallow (adj.) "pale yellow, brownish yellow," Old English fealu "reddish yellow, yellowish-brown, tawny, dusk-colored" (of flame, birds' feet, a horse, withered grass or leaves, waters, roads), from Proto-Germanic *falwa- (source also of Old Saxon falu, Old Norse fölr, Middle Dutch valu, Dutch vaal, Old High German falo, German falb), from PIE root *pel- (1) "pale." Related: Fallow-deer.
- fallow (n.) c. 1300, from Old English fealh "fallow land," from Proto-Germanic *falgo (source also of Old High German felga "harrow," German Felge "plowed-up fallow land," East Frisian falge "fallow," falgen "to break up ground"), perhaps from a derivation of PIE root *pel- (2) "to fold," hence "to turn." Assimilated since Old English to fallow (adj.), according to OED probably because of the color of plowed earth. Originally "plowed land," then "land plowed but not planted" (1520s). As an adjective, from late 14c.
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