外国人最想和你聊的时事话题：消失的土地

     New land use and conservation policies began to develop to meet this challenge.
     为了应付这一挑战，提出了使用和保护土地的新政策。
     Windbreaks not only protect land and crops from the wind. They can also provide wood products.
     防护林不仅能保护土地和庄稼免受狂风的侵蚀，还能提供木材制品。
     Pablo Sandor started an organization that helps communities develop businesses while still protecting the land.
     他发起了一个组织来帮助社区在保护土地的同时发展商业。
     To analyze and study the natural features of different types of land will help people to develop the production by taking the methods that suiting to local conditions, and will tap the productive potentials of the land, thus can protect and make rational use of the land resources.
     文章分析了各类土地的自然特征，从而能因地制宜地发展各项生产，提高土地的生产潜力，更加合理地利用和保护土地资源。
     Land-use conflict is almost guaranteed by the nature of our political and economic systems.
     土地利用冲突基本上受到政治和经济制度性质的保护。
     Conservationists had to carry on a constant struggle against lumber companies, ranchers, and homesteader.
     而资源保护学家们不得不和木材公司、牧场主以及分得土地的移民进行不断的斗争。
     The result indicates that in the future the land use in Yangzhou City will take on characteristics as follows: the area of cultivated land will reduce continually, the scale of construction land in the city proper and towns will still be increasing, and the unused land will be decreasing rapidly.
     预测结果表明：扬州市未来的土地利用主要存在耕地面积将持续减少、城镇建设用地规模仍将继续增大、未利用地面积减少较快等特征。
     In mapping out the general plans for land use, the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities shall ensure than the total amount of cultivated land under their jurisdiction shall not be reduced.
     省、自治区、直辖市人民政府编制的土地利用总体规划，应当确保本行政区域内耕地总量不减少。
     For example, a reduction in organic carbon and nutrients, including phosphorus or nitrogen, as may occur in intensively farmed areas, de creases the fertility of soils.
     例如，过度耕种的土地可能发生有机碳和营养的减少，包括磷或氮，降低了土壤的肥力，在农作物密集的地区往往是这样。
     The methods involve soil fertility management as well as reduced tillage.
     方法包括实行土地施肥管理和减少耕地。
     To cherish and give a rational use to the land as well as to give a true protection to the cultivated land are seen as a basic principle of land use in the country.
     珍惜、合理利用土地和切实保护耕地是我国的基本国策。
     Since the start of the development of green food, 1.13 million hectares of land have been well protected.
     绿色食品开发以来，有113万公顷土地受到较好保护。
     Peasants who have contracted land for operation are obliged to use the land rationally according to the purposes agreed upon in the contracts.
     承包经营土地的农民有保护和按照承包合同约定的用途合理利用土地的义务。
     General planning of land use is a tactical one that is about developing, using, curing, reclamation and protection of regional land resource.
     土地利用总体规划是指对区域范围内的土地资源开发、利用、整治、整理、复垦、保护等进行统筹安排的战略性规划。
     In order to build a suitable soil circumstance with fertility maintaining or even improving, principles of rational fertilization, combining organic manure with NPK fertilizers and consideration of land utilization, maintenance and protection should be taken.
     为了保持甚至改善土壤肥力以建立良好的土壤环境，要采用合理施肥、有机肥与氮磷钾化肥配合、综合考虑土地利用、维持和保护的原则。
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     Michael: Hi, Oliver, you look doomed, what's the matter?
     迈克尔：嗨，奥利弗，你看上去心情不太好。怎么啦？
     Oliver: I just quarreled with a stranger in the subway.
     奥利弗：刚刚乘地铁和一个陌生人吵架了。
     Michael: Why?
     迈克尔：为什么？
     Oliver: There were many people in the subway and I stepped on his foot by accident. Then we quarreled with each other.
     奥利弗：车上人很多，我不小心踩了他一下，然后我们就吵起来了。
     Michael: There are contradictions in the subways everyday.
     迈克尔：地铁上几乎每天都会发生口角。
     Oliver: There were not so many people in the city years ago, which the population is expending sharply during these years.
     奥利弗：前几年城市里没有这么多人，这些年人口却迅速膨胀。
     Michael: That's because many people who worked in farmland before swarm into city.
     迈克尔：这是因为很多过去在农村耕种的人都涌入了城市。
     Oliver: But why?
     奥利弗：但这是为什么呢？
     Michael: The gradual decrease and deterioration of land year by year prevent farmers from keeping living by cultivation.
     迈克尔：土地的逐年减少以及衰退使得农民无法再依靠耕种维持生计。
     Oliver: What are the reasons for land decrease and deterioration?
     奥利弗：是什么原因导致土地的减少和衰退呢？
     Michael: The policy of returning the grain plots to forests and grass turned many farmlands back to forests. In addition, excessive use of pesticides makes many lands not suit for cultivation any more. The compulsory occupation by land developers is also an important reason.
     迈克尔：由于前几年政府的退耕还林，退耕还草政策，使很多耕地变回了森林。此外由于过分使用农药，使得很多土地不再适合耕地。土地开发商对于耕地的强行占用也是重要原因之一。
     Oliver: These land developers shift their sight to rural areas when the housing in urban areas is saturated and eager to gain profit from it.
     奥利弗：开发商在城市住房饱和的情况下开始将目光投入到乡村，并计划从中获取暴利。
     Michael: These are the reasons for the decrease of cultivated lands.
     迈克尔：这些原因都令耕地面积减少。
     Oliver: There are also some farmers who believe that working in cities can earn more than cultivation, so sell the lands to developers.
     奥利弗：还有一些农民认为在城市打工的收入比种地高，所以将土地出售给开发商。
     Michael: The disappearance of land is an unnegligible problem for counties like ours with so large population.
     迈克尔：耕地的减少对于我们这样一个人口大国来讲是一个不可忽视的问题。
     Oliver: The government should decree related policies to protect lands and guarantee famers legal rights.
     奥利弗：政府应当出台相关政策保护耕地，确保农民的合法利益。
     Michael: Yes. Such as increase the supporting force towards agriculture, make regulations on pesticides using and restrict the occupation of land by developers.
     迈克尔：对。比如加大政府对于农业的扶持力度，对农药的使用做出规定，限制开发商无限制地占用耕地等等。
     Oliver: You're right.
     奥利弗：你说的对。