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fertile

adjective
🔊/ˈfɜːtaɪl/
🔊/ˈfɜːrtl/
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  1. (of land or soil土地或土壤) that plants grow well in肥沃的；富饶的
    • a fertile region/valley富饶的地区；肥沃的峡谷
    opposite infertile
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    Topics Geographyc1, Farmingc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
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  2. (of people, animals or plants人或动植物) that can produce babies, young animals, fruit or new plants能生育的；可繁殖的；能结果的
    • The treatment has been tested on healthy fertile women under the age of 35.这个疗法已对 35 岁以下能生育的健康妇女进行了试验。🔊🔊
    • women who proved particularly fertile经证实生育能力特别强的妇女
    opposite infertileTopics Biologyc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • look
    • become
    • …
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
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  3. [usually before noun] that produces good results; that encourages activity能产生好结果的；促进的
    • a fertile partnership有成效的合伙关系
    • The region at the time was fertile ground for revolutionary movements (= there were the necessary conditions for them to develop easily).当时该地区是革命运动的沃土。🔊🔊
    • a fertile source of argument/dispute易引起争论的事
    • The fall of the old regime provided fertile ground for opportunism.旧政府的垮台为机会主义提供了温床。
  4. [usually before noun] (of a person’s mind or imagination人的思想或想象力) that produces a lot of new ideas点子多的；想象力丰富的
    • the product of a fertile imagination想象力丰富的产物
    • the product of a fertile brain/mind肥沃的大脑/心灵的产物
    5. compare sterile
    Word Originlate Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre ‘to bear’.