| Chinese | English |
| 不可再生能源 | non-renewable energy resource Non-renewable resources have been built up or evolved over a geological time-span and cannot be used without depleting the stock and raising questions of ultimate exhaustibility, since their rate of formation is so slow as to be meaningless in terms of the human life-span (非再生能源是在地质时间跨度上已建成或进化而成的，如果没有消耗储备将不能使用，同时提出了最终耗竭问题，因为它们的形成速度如此缓慢以致于对于人类生活跨度而言毫无意义。) |
| 不可再生资源 | non-renewable resource A natural resource which, in terms of human time scales, is contained within the Earth in a fixed quantity and therefore can be used once only in the foreseeable future (although it may be recycled after its first use). This includes the fossil fuels and is extended to include mineral resources and sometimes ground water, although water and many minerals are renewed eventually (就人类历史时间尺度而言，地球中含有固定数量的自然资源，因此在可以预见的将来仅能被使用一次(尽管它可能在第一次使用后被再利用)。这包括化石燃料和扩展到包括矿产资源、有时也包括地下水，虽然水和一些矿物质最后将被更新。) |
| 人工再生技术 | artificial reproductive technique |
| 再生 | regeneration The renewing or reuse of materials such as activated carbon, single ion exchange resins, and filter beds by appropriate means to remove organics, metals, solids, etc. (更新或重用材料例如活性炭、单离子交换树脂、过滤床，通过适当方式消除有机物、重金属、固体等。) |
| 再生 | reprocessing Restoration of contaminated nuclear fuel to a usable condition (把被污染的核燃料恢复到可以使用的状态。) |
| 再生阶段 | phase of regeneration |
| 可再生材料 | renewable raw material Resources that have a natural rate of availability and yield a continual flow of services which may be consumed in any time period without endangering future consumption possibilities as long as current use does not exceed net renewal during the period under consideration (能以一定速度再生的资源，当前只要不过度使用，就不会影响到未来对该材料的使用。) |
| 可再生能源 | renewable energy source Energy sources that do not rely on fuels of which there are only finite stocks. The most widely used renewable source is hydroelectric power; other renewable sources are biomass energy, solar energy, tidal energy, wave energy, and wind energy; biomass energy does not avoid the danger of the greenhouse effect (不依赖于数量有限的矿石资源的能源。最广泛使用的可再生能源是氢能源；其它可再生能源包括生物能、太阳能、潮汐能、洋流能、风能；但生物能源不能避免温室效应。) |
| 可再生资源 | renewable resource Resources capable of being continuously renewed or replaced through such processes as organic reproduction and cultivation such as those practiced in agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries (可以持续更新(如在农业、畜牧业、林业和渔业经常使用的有性繁殖、培育)的资源。) |
| 废油回收再生法案 | Used Oil Recycling Act |
| 水再生 | water regeneration A process in which naturally occurring microorganisms, plants, trees or geophysical processes break down, degrade or filter out hazardous substances or pollutants from a body of water, cleansing and treating contaminated water without human intervention (微生物、植物、树木或地球物理的分解过程，退化或过滤掉水体中的有害物质或污染物，在没有任何人为干预情况下清洁和处理污染水的自然过程。) |
| 联合国新能源和可再生能源大会 | United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy |
