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| 农用土地 | agricultural land Land used primarily for the production of plant or animal crops, including arable agriculture, dairying, pasturage, apiaries, horticulture, floriculture, viticulture, animal husbandry and the necessary lands and structures needed for packing, processing, treating, or storing the produce (主要用于植物或动物农作物生产的土地，包括耕种农业、乳品业、畜牧业、养蜂场、园艺业、花卉业，葡萄栽培、畜牧业和包装、加工、处理或储存产品所必需的土地和建筑。) |
| 可持续土地耕作 | sustainable land husbandry |
| 土地 | land A specified geographical tract of the Earth's surface including all its attributes, comprising its geology, superficial deposits, topography, hydrology, soils, flora and fauna, together with the results of past and present human activity, to the extent that these attributes exert a significant influence on the present and future land utilization (地球表面的一种特定的地带，包括其所有特性，这些特性涵盖其地质、表面沉积、地貌、水文、土壤、植物群和动物群、以及过去和现在人类活动的影响，在某种程度上，这些属性对目前和未来的土地利用有重要作用。) |
| 土地价值 | land value The monetary or material worth in commerce or trade of an area of ground considered as property (在商业或交易中，作为财产的某块土地的货币价值或实用价值。) |
| 土地休耕 | land retirement |
| 土地使用 | land use The term land use deals with the spatial aspects of all human activities on the land and with the way in which the land surface is adapted, or could be adapted, to serve human needs (土地使用这一术语包含所有地表上的人类活动的空间和地表适应，或可能适用于人类需求的方式。) |
| 土地使用 | land occupation The use, settlement or possession of solid areas of the earth's surface (对地球表面陆地的使用、定居或占有。) |
| 土地使用制度 | soil use regime Type of management and utilization of the soil (土壤的管理和利用形式。) |
| 土地使用制度 | land use regime Relation existing between the landowner and the tenant farmer who cultivates the land (土地所有者和耕作土地的租用者间存在的关系。) |
| 土地使用计划 | land-use planning |
| 土地侵蚀退化 | land retirement |
| 土地保护 | land conservation The care, preservation and re-use of solid areas of the earth's surface, especially soil regions valued as a natural resource or utilized as an agricultural resource (地球表面坚固地区的管理、保护和重利用，特别是作为天然资源和农业资源的土壤地区。) |
| 土地分配 | land allotment Procedure by which big land properties are divided in parcels of smaller size (一种程序，用以将大块的土地资产分成面积较小的部分。) |
| 土地利用分类 | land use classification The arrangement of land units into a variety of categories based on the properties of the land or its suitability for a particular purpose. It has become an important tool in rural land-resource planning (基于土地的特性以及其适于的特殊用途，将土地分成多种类别的单元。已成为农村土地资源规划的重要工具。) |
| 土地利用规划 | land planning |
| 土地利用规划 | land use planning The interdisciplinary process of evaluating, organising, and controlling the present and the future development and use of lands and their resources in terms of their suitability on sustained yield basis. Includes an overall ecological evaluation in terms of specific kinds of uses as well as evaluations of social, economic, and physical contexts to the land concerned (根据永续收获基础的持续性，跨学科的评估、组织和控制土地资源的现状和未来发展及使用的过程。包括对有关土地的特定用途以及社会、经济、物理背景评估的整体生态评价。) |
| 土地可持续管理 | sustainable land management |
| 土地和财产登记 | land and property register The system of registering certain legal estates or interests in land. It describes the land and any additional rights incidental to it, such as rights of way over adjoining land (用以登记土地的合法财产权和所有权的制度。它叙述了土地以及其附属的权益，例如在临近土地的路经权。) |
| 土地填筑 | landfill |
| 土地开发 | land development Planning of infrastructures, services and industrial settlements in order to promote the socio-economic growth of certain land area (基础设施、服务业和工业区规划，以促进某些地区土地的社会经济发展。) |
| 土地开垦 | land reclamation Making land capable of more intensive use by changing its general character, as by drainage of excessively wet land; irrigation of arid or semiarid land; or recovery of submerged land from seas, lakes and rivers (通过改变土地的整体特征，如对过分湿地的排水、干旱半干旱土地的灌溉，或从重新开垦被海洋、湖泊和河流淹没的土地，使土地具有被进一步集约利用的能力。) |
| 土地恢复 | land restoration The treatment of any unusable land usually by filling with refuse or levelling until the land can be brought into productive use (对不可用土地的治理，通常通过垃圾填补或平整等方式，直至其具有生产性使用价值。) |
| 土地承载能力 | land carrying capacity The maximum extent to which ground or soil area may be exploited without degradation or depletion (在不造成土地退化或衰竭的前提下，土地或土壤使用的最大限度。) |
| 土地政策 | territorial policy A course of action adopted and pursued by government, business or some other organization, which determines the present and future use of each parcel of land in an area (由政府、企业或其它组织通过和奉行的行动方针，它确定当前和今后的每一块土地的利用。) |
| 土地整理 | land consolidation Joining small plots of land together to form larger farms or large fields (把小块儿土地连在一起形成较大的农场或土地。) |
| 土地污染 | land pollution The presence of one or more contaminants upon or within an area of land, or its constituents (一种或多种污染物存在于某地区或某地区范围内的现象。) |
| 土地清理 | land clearing Removal of trees, undergrowth, etc. in preparation for ploughing, building, etc. (清除树木、灌木丛等，为耕作或建筑等做准备。) |
| 土地生态 | land ecology Study of the relationship between terrestrial organisms and their environment (陆地生物与环境之间的关系的研究。) |
| 土地用途计划 | land use plan The key element of a comprehensive plan; describes the recommended location and intensity of development for public and private land uses, such as residential, commercial, industrial, recreational and agricultural (一项全面计划的主要内容，描述了公共和私人土地使用的推荐位置和发展力度，例如住宅、商业、工业、娱乐和农业。) |
| 土地登记 | land register A register or survey of land, containing information on the surface of properties, tenants' names, commencing with the earliest owners through successive ownership and partitions, and such like (土地登记或调查，其中载有关于房产权、住户的姓名的顶层信息，通过连续的所有权和分区等从最早的业主开始。) |
| 土地税 | land tax Property tax. A tax laid upon the legal or beneficial owner of real property, and apportioned upon the assessed value of his land (财产税。法定或实益拥有人为其不动产缴纳的税务，同时该税务依赖于土地的评估价值。) |
| 土地管理 | upkeep of countryside |
| 土地管理 | upkeep of land |
| 土地管理和规划 | land management and planning Operations for preparing and controlling the implementation of plans for organizing human activities on land (为准备和控制有关人类土地活动的计划的实施而制定的措施。) |
| 土地管理干预领域 | land-management intervention area Any expanse of land which requires a person or agency with authority to interpose or interfere in how it is used or administrated (对土地的扩展，需要有权干预或干涉土地如何使用或管理的人或机构。) |
| 土地维护 | upkeep of countryside |
| 土地维护 | upkeep of land |
| 土地脱盐 | land desalination |
| 土地覆盖 | land cover Land cover is the physical state of the land surface. It is the combination of vegetation, soil, rock, water and human-made structures, which make up the earth's landscape. The land cover is the interface between the earth's crust and the atmosphere, influencing the exchange of energy and matter in the climatic system and biogeochemical cycles (土地覆盖是指陆地表面的物理状态。它是植被、土壤、岩石、水和人工建筑的联合体，这些构成了地球的景观。土地覆盖，是地壳和大气之间的交界面，影响能源和物质在大气系统和生物地球化学循环间的交换。) |
| 土地规划 | land planning The activity of designing, organizing or preparing for the future use of solid areas of the earth's surface, especially regions valued for natural resources, utilized as agricultural resources or considered for human settlement (一项设计、组织或对地球表面的陆地的未来使用做准备的活动，特别是富含自然资源、被用作农业资源或用于人类居住的地区。) |
| 土地设置 | land setup The formulation of regional objectives, plans and programmes and the harmonization of the regional effects of sectorial planning (某一局部的目标、计划、方案以及对规划的局部效果的协调的规划。) |
| 土地退耕 | land retirement |
| 土壤质地 | soil texture 1. Refers to the relative proportions of the various size groups (sand, silt and clay) of the individual soil grains in a mass of soil. 2. Classification of soil by the proportion and graduations of the three size groups of soil grains, i.e., sand, silt and clay, present in the soil (1. 指大量土壤中的个体土壤的各大小团体(沙，淤泥和粘土)的相对比例。 2. 土壤以土壤颗粒的大小和比例按等级分为三类，如土壤中现有的沙、淤泥和粘土等。) |
| 地质技术学；土工学 | geotechnics The application of scientific methods and engineering principles to civil engineering problems through acquiring, interpreting, and using knowledge of materials of the crust of the earth (通过探测跟踪、判断读取和使用地壳原料的知识，运用科学方法和工程原理在土木工程问题的应用。) |
| 山区土地复垦 | land restoration in mountain areas Measures adopted to control erosion and degradation phenomena in the mountain regions caused by the loss of forest cover due to acid rain, uncontrolled forest cutting, winter skiing resorts construction, etc. (为了控制由于酸雨造成的深林减少、过度的森林砍伐、冬季滑雪胜地建设等引起的山区土地流失和退化现象所采取的措施。) |
| 工业废弃土地 | industrial wasteland Area of land which is no longer usable for cultivation or for any other purpose after having been the site of an industrial plant (过去曾是工厂用地，而今无法再作为农地或其它用途的土地区块。) |
| 干预土地 | intervention on land Stepping in or participating in problem solving efforts for troublesome or perplexing situations involving ground areas or the earth's surface (致力于或参与涉及陆地地区或地球表面的麻烦或困扰问题的解决。) |
| 建筑土地 | building land Area of land suitable for building on (适合建筑大楼的土地。) |
| 数字土地模型 | digital land model A representation of a surface's topography stored in a numerical format. Each pixel has been assigned coordinates and an altitude (将地表的地形影像以数字格式储存。 每个像素均指定了坐标和高度。) |
| 火灾和土地管理计划简写为FIRELAMP | fire and land management planning |
| 碱性土地 | alkali land Any geomorphic area, often a level lake-like plain, with soil containing a high percentage of mineral salts, located especially in arid regions (土壤含有高百分比的矿物质盐的任何地貌区域，通常是平如湖泊般的平原，其，常位于干旱地区。) |
| 边际土地 | marginal land Low quality land the value of whose production barely covers its cultivation costs (低质量的土地上，其生产价值仅够支付其种植成本。) |
| 退化土地 | degraded land |
