bạc điền
Definition
- Noun:
- Exhausted rice field; depleted field: A field, especially a rice paddy, whose soil has become infertile or depleted of nutrients due to over-cultivation, poor management, or natural degradation, resulting in very low crop yields.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- Sau nhiều năm canh tác không luân canh, cánh đồng đó đã trở thành bạc điền. (After many years of monoculture farming, that field has become an exhausted rice field.)
- Người nông dân phải bỏ hoang mảnh bạc điền vì không thể trồng trọt được nữa. (The farmer had to abandon the depleted field because it could no longer be cultivated.)
Advanced Usage
- The term "bạc điền" is often used in agricultural or rural contexts to describe a state of land degradation. It implies a loss of value and productivity from what was once fertile land.
Variants and Related Words
- Đất bạc màu (noun): This is a more common and general synonym meaning "exhausted soil" or "infertile land." It describes the condition of the soil itself.
- Vùng này có nhiều đất bạc màu. (This region has a lot of exhausted soil.)
- Bạc màu (adjective): Can be used to describe soil that is exhausted or depleted.
- Đất đai bạc màu. (The land is exhausted.)
Synonyms
- Ruộng đất cằn cỗi: Barren, arid fields/land.
- Đất suy kiệt: Depleted soil.
Related Idioms
- While "bạc điền" itself is not typically part of a common idiom, the concept relates to proverbs about land and cultivation, such as the idea that poor care leads to poor harvests.