The next few years were a fallow time for the electronic gaming industry as wave after wave of lackluster me-too console games flooded the market and drove sales south.

接下来的几年游戏产业休养生息， 一批批毫无创意的跟风游戏机大量涌入市场，并且开始向南部销售。

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The levels both of amount and energy of soil water were remarkably raised by adoption of mulch with straw in seedling stage as well as in summer fallow time in some cases.

采用夏闲期并苗期秸秆覆盖，能有效提高耕层土壤水分的数量水平和能量水平；

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Founded in 1700 by Dutch colonists and stewarded by a long line of British mining magnates, the vineyards of Vergelegen had been left fallow by the time Anglo American bought the Western Cape estate in 1987.

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