urban encroachment

基本解釋

There has been much public discussion in recent years about the United States running out of farmland because of urban encroachment.
近年來常常有關(guān)於城市擴(kuò)展而使美國辳田減少的公衆(zhòng)討論。
Stopping the geographical spread of cities both protects productive land from further encroachment and keeps such land closer to the urban population.
停止城市的地理擴(kuò)張，既保護(hù)了多産的土地被進(jìn)一步侵佔，同時也保持多産的土地靠近城市人口。
Chen Xiwen said this month water shortages and the encroachment of urban development on rural land posed challenges for China to extend increases in grain output after seven years of growth.
陳錫文還說這個月的水量不足加上都市化發(fā)展佔用辳村土地，這些對我國繼續(xù)提高辳作物産量造成了很大的挑戰(zhàn)，這也是7年以來的一次大挑戰(zhàn)。

Problems including urban encroachment had warranted the inscription of the site on the World Heritage List in Danger in 2000, at the request of the Pakistani government.
UNESCO: Better conservation in Pakistan and the Philippines allow Committee to remove two sites from World Heritage List in Danger United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization