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Fecund means able to produce a lot of life — many children, many young animals, or rich crops. A fecund valley grows food easily. Writers also stretch it: a fecund mind produces many ideas; a fecund year in music produces many good songs. It is a formal, word. Fertile is the everyday cousin. It is about producing plenty, not only about being pregnant at this moment. Some people say FEE-kund, others FEK-und; both are heard.
多產的、肥沃的(書面語;日常較常說「肥沃」或「很會生」)
組成From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
fecundadj/ˈfɛk.ənd/
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formalHighly fertile; able to produce offspring.
- The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
- The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
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Leading to new ideas or innovation.
- This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。