土地真的長出果實
這是字面義,那棵結滿果子的樹本身。
fruitful (fertile land) · adjective · C1
Used about land that grows a large amount of food plants.
肥沃
核心畫面
Full of fruit — a tree or a field so loaded that the effort put in comes back many times over.
一棵結滿果子的樹,或一片長得出東西的田。重點不只是「有果實」,而是「投進去的東西有回來,而且回來得比投進去的多」——…更多收起
一棵結滿果子的樹,或一片長得出東西的田。重點不只是「有果實」,而是「投進去的東西有回來,而且回來得比投進去的多」——你春天埋下一把種子,秋天扛回一整車。fruit + -ful 字面就是「充滿果實的」,這個「有收成」的感覺是兩個用法共同的底。From the word’s history
fruit + -ful, "full of fruit" — parallel to Dutch vruchtvol, German fruchtvoll.
就是 fruit(果實)加上 -ful(充滿…的),字面「滿是果實的」。這個組成很透明,所以英文母語者用 a fruitful discussion 時,心裡其實還隱隱看得到那棵結果子的樹——這也是為什麼中文常譯成「豐碩」而不是「有用」。
Wiktionary, "fruitful" (Middle English fruitefull = fruit + -ful)
Two branches
努力真的長出成果
把「田」換成「一場會議、一段研究、一次談判」:你一樣投入了時間和力氣,而問題是——最後有沒有東西收成?
fruitful (productive) · adjective · C1
Giving useful or good results from work, talks, or time spent on something.
豐碩
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。
fruitfuladj/ˈfɹuːtfl̩/
- 1
Favourable to the growth of fruit or useful vegetation; not barren.
- And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
- 2
Being productive in any sense; yielding benefits.
- The extra work in the office turned out to be fruitful after all—I got promoted
- So, given that Claude is not conscious, what are we to make of Claude’s constitution? Perhaps the most fruitful way to think about it is as an 84-page character sheet for a role-playing game.
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。