[mass noun]decayed organic material used as a fertilizer for growing plants 堆肥 ■a mixture of this or similar material with loam soil and/or other ingredients, used as a growing medium (用堆肥和肥土等混合而成的)混合肥料
verb
[with obj.]make (vegetable matter or manure) into compost 把(植物,粪肥)制成堆肥 don't compost heavily infested plants. 不要把有大量害虫的植物制成堆肥。 ■treat (soil) with compost 施堆肥于(土壤) we turned clay soil into almost workable soil by composting it. 我们通过施堆肥,把淤泥改造成了差不多可以耕种的土壤。
派生 composter noun 语源
late Middle English: from Old French composte, from Latin composita, compositum 'something put together', feminine and neuter past participle of componere