| 单词 | compost heap |
| 例句 | He smelled rancid as usual from working with vegetables, but more so that night, as if he’d fallen into the compost heap. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I dashed to the wall and bounded onto the compost heap. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When they made compost heaps and tried to conserve every little ounce of living matter, I laughed at them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I struggled out of the compost heap and over the last wall, dangled in limbo as the third chime bonged, then dropped onto the drive that runs down the side of Mr. Rhydd's shop. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z She padded toward him with a bucket full of kitchen scraps, her sandals squeaking, moving toward the compost heap, and on her return trip she’d passed between the rows of raspberries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Hatsue turned down between strawberry rows and upended her bucket on the compost heap, glanced at the moon so that its blue light caught her face, then returned to the house by a different route. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z A compost heap on the far side’d let me vault over the wall. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Women have multiple breasts; humans and apes alike have tails; the maligned faces of politicians — , — float up like ghosts from a compost heap. Art in Review: CLAIRE PENTECOST: ?Interior Studies? 2010-12-02T22:13:00Z Even my compostable bags need to be in the unique microbial environment of a pungent, rotting down compost heap. Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Professor M Leigh Ackland is a molecular biologist at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, and has been successfully composting her dog’s poo for 25 years in her domestic garden compost heap. Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Rodale to part the chemical sea that had flooded agriculture after World War II and lead so many of our gardeners and farmers to the compost heap. The essential compost pile I always use this very unromantic image of the imagination being fed by a compost heap. Susan Cooper: a life in writing 2012-12-21T22:54:02Z Nut trees, stables, ancestral compost heaps: I need no reminder of what I am missing. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z He praises her cooking; she admires his green thumb: “After holidays, I will put poinsettias on the compost heap. He brings them back in, and they flower again.” She meant to call someone else. He picked up. Five decades later, they’re still talking. 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z These 'forever chemicals' are responsible for preventing containers from becoming soggy from contact with moist and hot foods, but are linked to health problems, and have no place in a compost heap. Can the California plastics law solve our plastic problem? 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z He told Business Week that the situation between them had become like a “compost heap: If it generates enough heat, it’ll catch fire.” Howard Kaminsky, Publisher With a Best-Seller Sense, Dies at 77 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z It's the side of our sink, which is where we keep food waste and packaging before they are put on the compost heap or stuck in the recycling bin. Photographer Nigel Shafran's best shot 2010-04-21T21:15:00Z “It was June, 90 degrees and we had no air conditioning. One critic said it smelled like a compost heap.” ‘It Was a Crusade’: Karen Brooks Hopkins Revisits Her BAM Tenure 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z A composting fence and overflowing compost heaps run along the back of the shelter. UW program seeks to grow better farmers and consumers 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z They inhabit rubbish bins, compost heaps or any place where food is present, including drains. A fruit fly has landed in your wine – is it OK to drink? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z BBC2 Much as we would like to think our bucolic TV presenters slope between burrow and hide, greenhouse and compost heap, occasionally even they must meet their public. World Cup Live 2010-06-18T05:45:00Z “Masculinity and femininity don’t make sense in a compost heap,” one witch wrote in 2010. The Ultimate Guide to This Fabulous Summer 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Ader mulched copies of the middlebrow magazine in a backyard compost heap, later moving the pile into his studio and adding grow lights to accelerate the decay. Restoring the tragicomic tone to Bas Jan Ader 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Peeing on a compost heap activates the composting process helps to produce a ready supply of lovely organic matter to add back to the garden. L'Uritonnoir: the straw bale urinal that makes compost from 'liquid gold' 2013-04-26T09:26:46Z But we have drawn up a plan for a simple compost heap, and will be using up our collection of paper bags and cardboard in place of plastic as we get it going. Dog poop bags are a menace. But what's the green alternative? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z Nestled on an acre of land were an assortment of fresh vegetables, fruit trees, a green house and a compost heap — the best soil, after all, is nurtured. The bourbon-infused blueberry compote on this airy no-bake cheesecake is a star in its own right 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z These practices include generating "middens" -- piles of waste and food scraps, similar to compost heaps, that are maintained in certain locations around the center of a village. Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile 'dark earth' 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z “After he’d seen my compost heaps, which are not perfect, he said, ‘I’m doing all right,’” Dowding recalled. Is ‘no dig’ gardening really possible? 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z “They’re basically building these gigantic compost heaps within the forest, and then a ton of other species use those compost heaps as habitat or foraging grounds,” Cove says. The Strange Way a 12-Foot-Long Invasive Python Was Caught 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z MOVE’s compost heaps swarmed with rats and roaches that infested other homes, and about two dozen unvaccinated dogs roamed the property. She Was Killed by the Police. Why Were Her Bones in a Museum? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Before it is consigned to the compost heap, Mr Suski said he planned to the display the record-breaking cucumber at the Romsey Show on the Broadlands Estate in Hampshire on 10 September. Sebastian Suski earns world record for longest cucumber 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z For home composters, vegetable scraps and fruit peels are often a source of nitrogen, an integral part of the chemistry of a compost heap. Produce stickers are the scourge of the compost pile 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z Q: I only half-joke that my favorite place is the compost heap, that eternal life dimension. Why gardening offers a ‘psychological lifeline’ in times of crisis 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Often, the culprit is a potato tuber left in the ground or compost heap. What’s wrong with your tomatoes? And what to do now 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z In the warm, fetid environs of a compost heap, tiny roundworms feast on bacteria. How Do Blind Worms See the Color Blue? 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z French company Carbios revealed a different enzyme in April, originally discovered in a compost heap of leaves, that degrades 90% of plastic bottles within 10 hours, but requires heating above 70C. New super-enzyme eats plastic bottles six times faster 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z In February, frogs are the first garden residents to feel their passions ignite as they emerge from compost heaps or log piles and slip into the ponds. 'Nature survives in the tiniest corners': the City of London's wild heart 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But after darning the elbows and cuffs it eventually fell apart and was consigned to the compost heap. Shall I compare thee to my old jumper? Stories of love for old clothes 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z In 2012, researchers at Osaka University found one such enzyme in a compost heap. ‘A huge step forward.’ Mutant enzyme could vastly improve recycling of plastic bottles 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The enzyme, originally discovered in a compost heap of leaves, reduced the bottles to chemical building blocks that were then used to make high-quality new bottles. Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Covering the compost heap is a big piece of black rubber, just recognisable as part of one of the dinghies that bring refugees from Turkey and then get abandoned. The librarian of Moria – and other tales of hope from the notorious refugee camp 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z A straightforward “anti-waste” chapter includes recipes for plantain skins, jackfruit seeds, ridge-gourd peels and lime leaves, which often end up in the compost heap. India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Preserves Everything, Including the Past 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Right now that all goes into the compost heap. With need rising, co-op work increasing to solve hunger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Decomposing food scraps emit considerable heat, and the 6ft-tall compost heaps were warm to the touch. A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z People did whatever they wanted: Encke remembers one client who used his time there to sleep on the warm compost heap. Murder on the allotment: 'She was everything that he wanted to be' 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Advice on the wrapping says it should not be recycled but disposed of on a compost heap or in a food waste bin. Guardian switches to potato starch wrapping 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z The real alchemy of reality television is the editing—sifting through a compost heap of clips and piecing together an absorbing story. How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Substances like sawdust may be added as the material is composted, much like a garden compost heap. The Flush Is Just the Beginning 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Energy from the turbine, plus several solar panels, fed into a generator that pumped air into the compost heaps not being churned by hand. A lawyer set himself on fire to protest climate change. Did anyone care? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The planet would become an immense compost heap, covered in shoals of carcasses and dead trees that refused to rot. ‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z The Guardian said the wrap was suitable for domestic composting and designed to "completely compost within six months in a well-maintained compost heap or food waste bin". Guardian switches to potato starch wrapping 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z Jeremy was discovered in a compost heap in South West London by a retired scientist from The Natural History Museum. Jeremy the lefty snail is dead. His offspring are all right. 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z He runs through the usual landlord instructions: how not to burn the house down, the owner-specific intricacies of the compost heap. I Said Bring Your Own BEER 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z With continual delays for a legitimate asylum hearing, those immigrants get caught up in the compost heap that is our government bureaucracy and spread across the American landscape without reason to return for adjudication. Obama Administration Is Quietly Delaying Thousands of Deportation Cases 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Often the produce that was harvested ended up in a compost heap. Chefs ramp up ‘farm-to-table’ meals with restaurant gardens 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z To figure out how the worms were getting around, Schulenberg and colleagues began searching gardens and compost heaps for creatures that might be offering them a ride. "Huge Surprise": Worms Hitchhike in Slug Guts 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z After all, each individual erupts out of a swirl of cellular soup and is recycled back into the compost heap when the work is done. Generation Blockhead: How Minecraft Mods The Grown-Ups Of Tomorrow 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z “Old compost heaps, sheds and patios to nest under, rockeries full of cavities and so on.” Two books on the bumblebee Even most biodegradable plastics don’t degrade in seawater because they require the relative warmth of soil or a compost heap. How So Much Plastic Got Into the Frozen Arctic Sea 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z It's filled with loving details of compost heaps and free ranging chickens. Hunger games with climate change 2014-03-28T01:35:13Z Next to these dreamy visions are a pair of biodegradable trainers – which are already available to buy, wear out, then throw on the compost heap. Is DIY design more than a passing fad? 2013-07-24T10:15:03Z With the help of home-grown food, a compost heap and fastidious recycling, he has managed to restrict himself to one black bin bag, filled mainly with plastic wrapping which has to go to landfill. Future mulled on Europe anniversary 2013-01-01T06:01:59Z If we are warming the planet too fast then theoretically the soils will warm up like a compost heap, making the microbes work faster and generate yet more heat. IHT Rendezvous: Beware, We're Having a Heat Wave 2012-03-27T11:43:04Z It is well, therefore, to burn the tops of the plants in the fall, rather than to plough them under or to throw them on the compost heap. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Or a compost heap may be prepared with successive layers of soil and manure or other humus making material. The Tomato 2011-11-20T03:00:13.470Z If it collects in quantities beyond the absorbing power of the manure pile, it should go on the compost heap or else be diluted and at once put upon the land. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z Indeed, slavery is a breeding-bed, a sort of compost heap, where the best qualities of both races decay and become food for the worst. Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.) 2011-02-23T03:00:31.787Z He held the football like he just pulled it from the bottom of a compost heap. The Fifth Down: Relive the Forgotten Great Super Bowl 2011-02-03T18:30:30Z In that compost heap of humanity the girl was a vision, and Wade turned to old Christopher with unspoken questions on his parted lips. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z As a result, gardeners are finding the net part of teabags - caused by the inclusion of heat-resistant polypropylene - left on their compost heaps. Most UK teabags not fully biodegradeable, research reveals 2010-07-02T05:00:00Z This explains the superiority of good, moist soil as compared to coal ashes for making compost heaps. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z One applicant suggests sampling bacteria from local compost heaps to see how fast the species adapt to different food wastes. Got a brainwave? 2010-02-24T22:30:00Z And in any one of the ninety days the water might find its increasing way through the "compost heap"; whereupon the devastating end would come swiftly. The King of Arcadia The drippings of brine and blood from the meat are collected in buckets and sent to the compost heaps. Home Pork Making Our teabags are suitable for inclusion in compost heaps where the fibres will break down. Most UK teabags not fully biodegradeable, research reveals 2010-07-02T05:00:00Z No manures are allowed to lie in the barn-yard, but they are all early removed to the compost heap, where they are preserved by being mixed with carbonaceous matter. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools The proportions reversed would be better: put one bushel of lime to two loads, two quarts of ground plaster, and half a bushel of ashes, and you have the very best compost heap. Soil Culture The latter came from a compost heap of street sweepings which had been standing two years and was supposed to be nutritious. Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools In the fall, when the leaves are falling from the trees, it is a good idea to gather up from the gutters the accumulated leaves and put them in the compost heap. Making a Lawn Agaricus subrufescens was described by Dr. Peck from specimens collected on a compost heap composed chiefly of leaves, at Glen Cove, Long Island. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. The worthless muck bed was retained, and is made worth one dollar a load to the compost heap, especially as the land requires an increase of organic matter. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools On the compost heap it is valuable in small quantities; it is also useful on all long, coarse, or fresh manures of the previous winter. Soil Culture Paths should be kept clean, and all rubbish, weeds, dead plants, etc., removed to the compost heap, which should be in the least conspicuous part of the garden. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Rake up the leaves, and add everything of this kind to the compost heap. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover It is likewise formed daring the decay of animal and vegetable matters, and is consequently evolved from dung and compost heaps. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Charcoal has much power to arrest the passage of mineral matters in solution; so much so, that compost heaps, well supplied with muck, are less affected by rains than those not so supplied. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools It will absorb the urine, and as soon as foul, should be removed to the compost heap with the dung, where it will soon be converted into fine, excellent manure. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside All dead plants and refuse should be removed and covered up in a compost heap. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Lime should be sprinkled about the compost heap, and from time to time it should be drawn away and the place covered with clean earth. Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Be sure to keep the compost heap under shelter. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition This liquid is a solution of super-phosphate of lime, containing sulphate of lime, and may be applied to the soil in a liquid form, or through the medium of a compost heap. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools So they had to go and hunt through the surrounding fields for old refuse straw, in rotting ricks and compost heaps. Hebrew Life and Times The soil should be made fine and fertilized with well-rotted manure from the compost heap before setting out the young perennials. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study All the mess that goes to make up this compost heap we call society.... The Danger Mark For these mountains are in reality vast compost heaps, nature's stores of powerful stimulants. The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Open sheds protect from sun and rain, and they are emptied as often as is necessary, regardless of season, for I believe that the fields can care for manure better than a compost heap. The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm That day and time, they made compost heaps. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 It wanted a little in consistency, perhaps; but the compost heap was very large, containing enough of all the materials just mentioned to give the garden another good dressing. The Crater It was of small dimensions, with a peaked cottage roof, and not much else to be seen, the dirt being raised five feet all around as if it were a compost heap. Walden A good place for the leaves is the compost heap. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Fallen leaves, grass clippings, vegetable tops and roots, green weeds, garbage, house slops, dish water, chip dirt from the wood-pile, shavings—any thing that will rot away, should go into the compost heap. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use A compost heap is like a sixpenny savings bank. Success with Small Fruits Several of the fish caught turned out to be delicious, while others were of a quality that caused them to be thrown into the compost heap. The Crater Reference has been made to subsidies encouraging the use of composts, and in this prefecture prizes are awarded for the best compost heaps in each county, examinations being made by a committee. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan Perhaps I may as well explain about these compost heaps now as at any other time. Driven Back to Eden Next spring when you are looking for every available pound of manure with which to enrich your garden, this compost heap will stand you in good stead. Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use The rotting of the compost heap is thus a gigantic cultivation of bacteria. The Story of Germ Life They convert all of his compost heap wastes into simple bodies, some of which are changed into plant foods, while others are at the same time lost. The Story of Germ Life When he wishes to convert waste organic refuse into fertilizing material, he uses the bacteria of his compost heap. The Story of Germ Life Through the agency of bacteria the compost heap thus becomes the great source of plant food to the farmer. The Story of Germ Life Into this compost heap he throws garbage, straw, vegetable and animal substances in general, or any organic refuse which may be at hand. The Story of Germ Life In the ordinary decomposition of the compost heap not an inconsiderable portion of the nitrogen is lost in the air by dissipation as ammonia or free nitrogen. The Story of Germ Life |
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