fallow

英 ['fæləʊ] 美 ['fælo]

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解释

adj. 休耕的；不活跃的
n. 休耕地；休耕
vt. 使（土地）休闲；潜伏
n. (Fallow)人名；(英)法洛

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中文词源

fallow 休耕

来自PIE*pel, 转，折叠，词源同fold, ply. 原指犁过的土地，后指犁过但未耕种的土地，最后指现在的词义。

英文词源

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.

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例句和用法

1. Farmers are now paid to let their land lie fallow .: 农民让土地休耕现在得到了回报。

2. Leaving some fields fallow provided a natural check on insect populations.: 让一些土地休耕是自然控制昆虫数量的办法.

3. Summer fallow is the best method of destroying weeds.: 夏季休耕是消灭杂草的最好办法.

4. After a fallow period, she gave birth to two sons.: 久未生育之后, 她一连又生了两个儿子.

5. There followed something of a fallow period professionally, until a job came up in the summer.: 接着在事业上无甚起色，直到夏季有了一份工作。