mass noun
1- decayed organic material used as a fertilizer for growing plants堆肥。
1.1
- 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。
with obj.
1- make (vegetable matter or manure) into compost把（植物, 粪肥）制成堆肥：
don't compost heavily infested plants.
不要把有大量虫害的植物制成堆肥。
1.1
- 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。
派生词
composter
noun词源
late Middle English: from Old French composte, from Latin composita, compositum 'something put together'， feminine and neuter past participle of componere.