2VERB 收回;拿回;申請退(稅) If you reclaim an amount of money, for example tax that you have paid, you claim it back. 收回;拿回;申請退(稅)
There are an estimated eight million people currently thought to be eligible to reclaim income tax. [VERB noun]
估計現在有800萬人有資格申請所得稅退稅。
3VERB 開墾(荒地);開拓(耕地或建築用地) When people reclaim land, they make it suitable for a purpose such as farming or building, for example by draining it or by building a barrier against the sea. 開墾(荒地);開拓(耕地或建築用地)
The Netherlands has been reclaiming farmland from water. [VERB noun]
荷蘭人一直在圍海造地。
...a scheme to build a residential development on 1,100 acres of reclaimed land in Tokyo Bay. [VERB-ed]
4VERB [usually passive]使(農田、建築用地)重新變成(沙漠、森林或海洋) If a piece of land that was used for farming or building is reclaimed by a desert, forest, or the sea, it turns back into desert, forest, or sea. 使(農田、建築用地)重新變成(沙漠、森林或海洋)
The diamond towns are gradually being reclaimed by the desert. [beVERB-ed + by]
這些鑽石城鎮正逐漸重歸沙漠。
This method of spraying would allow the land to be reclaimed by the rain forests. [beV-ed by n]
這種噴灑法可以使土地重新變成雨林。
5VERB 挽救;感化 If you reclaim a person who has been involved in bad or criminal behaviour, you cause them to stop acting in that way. 挽救;感化
He set out to fight the drug infestation of Omaha by reclaiming a youth from the local gangs. [VERB noun]