fallow
英 ['fæləʊ]
美 ['fælo]
- adj. 休耕的；不活躍的
- n. 休耕地；休耕
- vt. 使（土地）休閑；潛伏
- n. (Fallow)人名；(英)法洛
助記提示
1. perhaps from a derivation of PIE root *pel- "turn, fold", *pel-有多重含義，其中之一就是此意.
2. 跟漢語的“翻耕土地”的發音差不多，主要指首輔音的發音一樣。
3. Originally "plowed land," then "land plowed but not planted".
4. 該詞的顏色含義是因為翻耕過來的土地呈淡黃色、淡棕色。黃土地、黃土地、黃土高原就是這麽叫起來的，世界上絕大部分土地都應該是呈淡黃色。
5. 形近詞：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
6. Fallow: 肥嘍！土地使用過度會失去肥力，所以能夠保持肥沃的土地一定是----休閑的土地，休閑的。讓土地休養生息自然就肥嘍。
7. f (諧音“否、弗”) + allow => fallow: 不允許翻耕土地。
8. 諧音“乏耨、罰耨、否耨、弗耨”------不準耨地。
9. fold => fallow.
中文詞源
fallow 休耕來自PIE*pel, 轉，折疊，詞源同fold, ply. 原指犁過的土地，後指犁過但未耕種的土地，最後指現在的詞義。
英文詞源
- fallow
- fallow: English has two words fallow, both of considerable antiquity. Fallow ‘uncultivated’ [OE] originally meant ‘ploughed land’. Its present-day adjectival meaning ‘ploughed but not sown’ or, more broadly, just ‘uncultivated’, developed in the 15th century. Fallow ‘pale yellowish-brown’ [OE] (now used only in fallow deer) comes via Germanic *falwaz from Indo- European *polwos, a derivative of the base *pol-, *pel-, which also produced English appal [14] (originally ‘grow pale’), pale, and pallid.
Its Germanic relatives include German fahl ‘pale, fawn’ and falb ‘pale yellow’. (Germanic *falwaz, incidentally, was the ancestor of French fauve ‘wild animal’, source of the term fauvism [20] applied to an early 20th-century European art movement that favoured simplified forms and bold colours.)
=> appal, pale, pallid - fallow (n.)
- c. 1300, from Old English fealh "fallow land," from Proto-Germanic *falgo (cognates: 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- (3) "to turn, fold." 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.
- 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- (cognates: Old Saxon falu, Old Norse fölr, Middle Dutch valu, Dutch vaal, Old High German falo, German falb), from PIE *pal-wo- "dark-colored, gray" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic plavu, Lithuanian palvas "sallow;" Greek polios "gray" (of hair, wolves, waves), Sanskrit palitah, Welsh llwyd "gray;" Latin pallere "to be pale"), suffixed form of root *pel- (2) "pale" (see pallor). It also forms the root of words for "pigeon" in Greek (peleia), Latin (palumbes), and Old Prussian (poalis). Related: Fallow-deer.
雙語例句
- 1. Farmers are now paid to let their land lie fallow .
- 農民讓土地休耕現在得到了回報。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. Leaving some fields fallow provided a natural check on insect populations.
- 讓一些土地休耕是自然控製昆蟲數量的辦法.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. Summer fallow is the best method of destroying weeds.
- 夏季休耕是消滅雜草的最好辦法.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 4. After a fallow period, she gave birth to two sons.
- 久未生育之後, 她一連又生了兩個兒子.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.
- 接著在事業上無甚起色，直到夏季有了一份工作。
來自柯林斯例句