田地本身：翻好了，故意不種
最字面的一支，直接就是那張圖本身。
adjective · C1
Fallow land has been ploughed but is left with no crop growing on it for a season or longer, so that the soil can rest and build its strength back.
休耕的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a ploughed field with nothing planted in it. Everything about that field says work has been done — the soil is turned and ready — and yet the seed was deliberately held back so the ground can get its strength back. Emptiness on purpose, with something expected later. That single picture carries the farming uses and the borrowed one about time.
fallow 可以想成一塊翻好土、卻刻意不下種的田。看得出來工已經做了：土是鬆的，也整理過了。少的只有種子，而且是故…更多收起
fallow 可以想成一塊翻好土、卻刻意不下種的田。看得出來工已經做了：土是鬆的，也整理過了。少的只有種子，而且是故意不放的，為的是讓地把力氣養回來。所以這張圖的重點是「刻意的空」，而且後面還有期待。休耕的地、休耕這個做法，還有借過來講時間的空窗期，都掛在這一張圖上。（跟 fallow deer 的 fallow 是另一條線，另有一張圖。）From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary etymology takes this fallow back to Old English fealh/fealg, 'fallow land', from a root meaning arable land — so the word began as the field itself and was later lent to time.
封包裡的字源說，這個 fallow 來自古英語 fealh／fealg，意思就是「休耕的地」，再往上是表示「可耕地」的字根。也就是說，它一開始講的就是那塊田，後來才被借去講一段時間。
Wiktionary entry supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1171112312) — Old English fealh, fealg 'fallow land', from Proto-Indo-European *polḱéh₂ 'arable land'.
Two branches
借過來講時間：表面上什麼都沒發生
把田搬到日曆上：同樣是刻意的空，同樣期待後面會長出東西。
adjective · C1
A fallow period is a stretch of time in which a person, a group or a business makes nothing new and nothing much is achieved.
空窗期