reclaim: vt.1.要求归还…,收回。2.把(鹰)养乖,叫回。3.矫正,改正,使悔改;教化,感化。4.开垦,填筑。5.利用;翻造,再生,回收(废物)。 reclaim land from the sea 填海拓地。 a reclaimed ground 填筑地。 reclaimed (India-) rubber 再生(橡)胶。vi.1.〔古语〕抗辩。2.悔改,改邪归正。n.1.矫正
This represented a great shift from the centuries - long history of reclaiming farmland from lakes to restoring it to them on a large scale 例1实现了千百年来围湖造田、与湖争地到大规模退田还湖的历史性转变。