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| 可持续利用 | sustainable use Use of the environment and its living resources at a rate that does not exceed its capacity for renewal in order to ensure its availability for future generations (环境及其生物资源的利用的速度不超过其再生能力，以确保其为子孙后代的供给。) |
| 可持续发展 | sustainable development Development that provides economic, social and environmental benefits in the long term having regard to the needs of living and future generations. Defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 as: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (发展提供长远考虑，考虑到子孙后代生活的需要和长远的经济、社会和环境效益。由世界环境与发展委员会于1987年定义：发展满足当代人的需求，但又不损害子孙后代能满足他们自己的需要。) |
| 可持续发展准则 | principle of sustainability Principle stated by the World Commission on Environment and Development (The Bruntland Commission) in 1987: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainable development is a process of integrating economic, social and ecological goals, and should not mean a trade-off between the environment and development. Sustainable development should imply balance rather than conflict (布伦特兰委员会 在1987年制定的准则：发展必须符合当代人的需求又不损害子孙后代的需要。可持续发展是一个融合经济、社会和生态目标的进程，而不应意味着环境和发展之间的妥协。可持续发展应意味着平衡，而不是冲突。) |
| 可持续发展指标 | sustainable development indicator Statistical indicators used for measuring sustainable development that may be chosen among a wide range of themes as, for example, environmental capacity and quality of life (用于衡量可持续发展的统计指标，可能是其中一个作为主题，广泛选择，例如，环境容量和生活质量。) |
| 可持续土地耕作 | sustainable land husbandry |
| 土地可持续管理 | sustainable land management |
| 大气连续监测计划 | continuous air monitoring program |
| 持续使用 | sustainable use |
| 持续教育 | continuing education Various forms, methods, and processes of formal and informal education for the continued learning of all ages and categories of the general public. Oriented toward the continued learning/developmental processes of the individual throughout life (以一个人终生的持续学习或发展过程为目的，为各年龄各阶层民众的持续性学习而提供的不同形式、方法、过程，正式或非正式的教育。。) |
| 断续水胁迫 | intermittent water stress |
| 管路中的替续中继泵站 | relay pump stations |
| 火势继续燃烧时期 | extra burning period |
| 环境可持续建筑学 | environmental sustainable architecture Environmentally friendly architecture is based on the following five principles: 1. healthful interior environment; 2. energy efficiency; 3. ecologically benign materials; 4. environmental form; 5. good design (环境友好建筑学需要基于以下五点原则：1.健康的内部环境；2.有效使用能用；3.良性生态材料；4.自然环境形式；5.好的设计。) |
| 继续生长机遇 | chance of continued growth |
| 继续胁迫 | continuing stress |
| 自然资源的可持续利用 | sustainable use of natural resources |
| 连续大气监测仪 | continuous air monitor |
| 连续性负荷 | continuous load The amount or quantity of polluting material found in a transporting agent that flows at a steady rate, in contrast to a sudden or dramatic influx (指污染物于传输介质中以稳定速率流动的数量或质量，与突然或剧烈流入相反。) |
| 连续排放物监测系统 | continuous emission monitoring systems |
| 连续排放监测器 | continuous emissions monitor |
| 连续蒸腾 | uninterrupted transpiration |