territory

noun

1. an area of knowledge or interest

e.g. his questions covered a lot of territory

2. the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

e.g. American troops were stationed on Japanese soil

Synonym: soil

3. a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

Synonym: districtterritorial dominiondominion

1. 领土;领地
Territory is land which is controlled by a particular country or ruler.

e.g. The government denies that any of its territory is under rebel control.
政府否认有领土被反叛分子所控制。
e.g. ...Russian territory.
俄罗斯领土

2. 属地，地区，托管地(指被别国控制的国家或地区)
A territory is a country or region that is controlled by another country.

e.g. They just want to return to their families in the occupied territories...
他们只是想回到在占领区的家人身边。
e.g. He toured some of the disputed territories now under UN control.
他去一些目前由联合国接管的争议地区巡视了一番。

3. (知识)领域;(经验)范围
You can use territory to refer to an area of knowledge or experience.

e.g. Following the futuristic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood's seventh novel, Cat's Eye, returns to more familiar territory...
写完了具有未来色彩的《女仆的故事》之后，玛格丽特·阿特伍德的第七部小说《猫眼》回归到了人们较熟悉的题材上。
e.g. Reading from a tedious technical brief for hours on end, he would stray into difficult territory.
连续看上几个小时枯燥的技术简报后，他会不自觉地钻起牛角尖来。

4. (动物的)领地，地盘
An animal's territory is an area which it regards as its own and which it defends when other animals try to enter it.

e.g. The territory of a cat only remains fixed for as long as the cat dominates the area.
猫的地盘只在它占据那个地方的时候是固定不变的。

5. (具有一定特点的)地带，地区
Territory is land with a particular character.

e.g. ...mountainous territory.
多山地带
e.g. ...a vast and uninhabited territory.
广阔的无人居住区

6. 是难免的事;是必然的事
If you say that something comes with the territory, you mean that you accept it as a natural result of the situation you are in.

e.g. Doing human rights work is risky business. That comes with the territory...
做人权工作是要冒风险的。这是难免的。
e.g. You can't expect not to have a debate; that's what comes with the territory in a democracy.
不要指望不会发生辩论，那在民主社会已成为必然。

1. 领土：一旦摒弃了法律与国家的二元论,将国家作为法律秩序看待,那么所谓的国家的要素--领土(territory)与人民(population)--也就表现为国内法律秩序的属地与属人效力范围(territorial and personal spheres of validity).

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2. 地域：Locale 是软件在运行时的语言环境,它 包括语言(Language), 地域 (Territory) 和字符集(Codeset). 一个locale的书写格式为: 语言[_地域[.字符集]]. 所以说呢,locale总是和一定的字符集相联系的. 下面举几个例子:

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3. 地盘：aggression 侵犯行为 此行为的目的是恐吓或损伤同种的其余个体或其竞争对象.同种个 体间的侵犯行为,经常从一系列的仪式化的表示或争斗开始,并可以在 任何阶段结束,如果争斗的一方撤退离开,而胜利者接近争夺源[例如 食物,配偶或地盘(territory)],同时提高了胜利