But the next day there was hard work for Margery's father! Every bit of that "scrambled" turf had to be broken up still more with a mattock and a spade, and then the pieces which were full of grass-roots had to be taken on a fork and shaken, till the earth fell out; then the grass was thrown to one side. That would not have had to be done if the land had been ploughed in the fall; the grass would have rotted in the ground, and would have made fertilizer for the plants. Now, Margery's father put the fertilizer on the top, and then raked it into the earth.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
"Of all colors, white is the prevailing one; and of white flowers a considerably larger proportion smell sweetly than of any other color, namely, 14.6 per cent; of red only 8.2 per cent are odoriferous. The fact of a large proportion of white flowers smelling sweetly may depend in part on those which are fertilized by moths requiring the double aid of conspicuousness in the dusk and of odor. So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exclusively in the evening." - Charles Darwin.英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
I proceeded imperturbably to say that the two-acre potato field was to be plowed and fertilized, and laid out into sixty individual gardens, the boys assisting in the work.英文原著 · 《Dear Enemy》
It is fertilized by several rivers, which traverse it in all directions, to the east and west, to the south and north; but there are two pre-eminently distinguished among the rest, the Thames and the Severn, which formerly, like the two arms of Britain, bore the ships employed in the conveyance of riches acquired by commerce. The Britons were once very populous, and exercised extensive dominion from sea to sea.英文原著 · 《History Of The Britons》
At last, it was time to make the place for the seeds. Margery and her mother helped. Father tied one end of a cord to a little stake, and drove the stake in the ground at one end of the garden. Then he took the cord to the other end of the garden and pulled it tight, tied it to another stake, and drove that down. That made a straight line for him to see. Then he hoed a trench, a few inches deep, the whole length of the cord, and scattered fertilizer in it. Pretty soon the whole garden was in lines of little trenches.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
"You needn't mind, mother." He spoke rapidly, muttering his words. "I'd better wear my old clothes if I have to take the hides. They're greasy, and in the sun they'll smell worse than fertilizer."英文原著 · 《One of Ours》
And the horseshit we will spew is the fertilizer.美剧 · 《Billions》
No matter how carefully she trimmed, or how lovingly she watered... or how generously she fertilized, the grass was always greener on the other side of the fence.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
No. Good old Uncle Henry, he fertilized his crop from his own septic tank.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Wait a second! I just saw lots of greenery in your GreenLab. You have to use fertilizer. Wait a second! I just saw lots of greenery in your GreenLab. You have to use fertilizer.演讲 · 《Plant fuels that could power a jet ~ Bilal Bomani》
Cut the cost of fertilizer and the interest rates on microcredit loans by 30 percent cut the cost of fertilizer and the interest rates on microcredit loans by 30 percent演讲 · 《My wish Rebuilding Rwanda ~ Bill Clinton》