More than 140 golf clubs in England have breached(违反) their water extraction licences(取水许可) in the past five years, according to data analysis by the Guardian.
根据《卫报》的数据分析，过去五年间，英格兰超过140家高尔夫俱乐部违反了取水许可。
More than a third of these clubs were caught taking water illegally from the environment, either by taking more than permitted(被允许的) or by removing it outside the permitted period(在许可时段之外).
这些俱乐部中超过三分之一被发现在非法取水，要么取水量超过许可上限，要么在许可时段之外取水。
In most of the other cases, the breaches were the result of golf clubs that were either not reporting or monitoring their water usage properly, or were not reporting and monitoring it at all.(在其余大多数案例中，违规源于高尔夫俱乐部要么没有妥善报告或监测用水量，要么根本没有进行报告和监测。)
在其余大多数案例中，违规源于高尔夫俱乐部要么没有妥善报告或监测用水量，要么根本没有进行报告和监测。