英语释义

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;

  "My speech was cut short"

  "Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"

• place restrictions on;

  "curtail drinking in school"

片语

nto curtail缩短

curtail advertising削减广告

curtail development抑制显影

curtail prolong剪短

Army Curtail黎军

crop产量；农作物；庄稼；平头

curtail v缩短

curtail production紧缩生产

to cut back缩减；削减

英汉例句

• nothing is sacrificed to curtail its length; the only concession is to remove the footnotes from the text.

  没有哪一个情节为了缩减书的长度而被删减；唯一的妥协是将脚注从书中移除。

• since all aspects of the software are focused on being real-time, delays and poor quality in that arena could seriously curtail the platform「s usefulness.

  因为这类软件的所有方面都关注于信息传输的实时性，因此延迟和糟糕的服务质量会严重削弱平台的实用性。

• the video was used to help pass the recent so-called anti-paparazzi law in california that would curtail unauthorized celebrity snaps.

  这段视频在加州被用于帮助通过一项最近刚刚出台的反对狗仔队的法律，这项法律将缩减对于名人不合法的拍摄。

• if you are expecting both people to grow in the same direction and in the same way, that is unfair to both people. it will curtail and suffocate both of their lives.

  如果你期望两个人都能朝着同一个方向用同样的方式成长，这对两个人都是不公平的，这也会压抑和剥夺彼此的生活乐趣。

• over the past year, richert has tried to curtail her oil and energy consumption. "i」ve cut back the amount of plastic i use.

  在过去的一年里，里歇尔试图缩减她的石油和能源消耗。

• the ranks of the uninsured have grown as care becomes more expensive and more employers, through whom most workers get insurance, drop or curtail benefits.

  随着保险越来越贵，失去保险的人群在增加；雇员们从雇主那里获得保险，而更多的雇主缩减了保险金。

• a compromise was eventually reached on january 31st, but not before the government had hinted at a remedy cruder still—an unprecedented 「guillotine」 motion to curtail discussion of the bill.

  妥协最终在1月31日达成。政府稍早前暗示了一个更加严厉的措施——一个前所未有的缩短议案讨论时间的果断举措。

• any attempt to curtail speculation, by contrast, is likely to make life harder for firms and oil more expensive.

  任何减少投机的尝试，相反，很可能使公司的日子更艰难，石油的价格更昂贵。

• after vowing to curtail government spending, ministries put forward a record budget request of ¥95 trillion for 2010, surpassing this year’s ¥89 trillion.

  在立誓要削减政府支出后，政府各部提出了一项创纪录的95万亿日元的2010年度预算，超过了今年的89万亿日元。

• when theauthor’s guild tried to getamazon to curtail its used-book market, the companyrefused to backdown.

  当美国着作权协会试图让亚马逊缩减其旧书市场的时候，这家公司拒绝让步。

• the very size of last year「s credit boom also makes it hard for banks to curtail lending this year.

  去年的信贷激增也令中国银行业难以缩减今年的放贷量。

• clearly, the bleak global economic outlook could curtail growth and reduce government revenue.

  显然，黯淡的全球经济前景可能削弱增长，降低政府收入。

• or the budget deficit may be so large that the fed is unwilling to curtail its bond buying and raise rates sufficiently to offset it.

  抑或美国的预算赤字届时可能变得如此庞大，以致于美联储不愿意缩减债券购买规模并大幅加息以降低预算赤字。

• we should curtail the rights of the 21% and increase their responsibilities towards the 79%.

  我们应当缩减占21%人口的烟民的权利，并增加他们对占79%人口的非烟民所应承担的责任。

• one way to protect sensitive data from attacks built on document transparency is to curtail the transparency by encrypting parts of xml documents.

  一种保护在文档透明性基础上构建的敏感数据免受攻击的方法是通过加密部分xml文档来降低透明性。

• parents with bedwetting children learn to curtail all liquids about 2 hours before sleep, thereby allowing the child」s body to void excess liquids about 30-60 minutes before actual bed-time.

  容易尿床的小孩的父母要学会睡前两小时缩减饮料，让小孩的身体排泄多余的液体，这些都要在实际上床时间的30-60分钟以前。

• except in ireland, where the dire state of banks is likely to curtail credit for some time, and canada, which peaked late, prices are dropping gradually, if at all.

  爱尔兰和加拿大除外，前者银行的恶劣状态可能会使其在一段时间内缩减信贷，后者的价格达到高峰值的时间晚一些，目前价格还在逐渐下降。

• he had been forced to curtail his writing, and he feared that he would soon have to give it up.

  他只得被迫缩减他的作品，并担心自己今后恐怕不得不放弃写作了。

• as species wither, the marine food chain could be disrupted; human action is needed to curtail further acidification.

  随着物种萧条，海洋食物链可能会被扰乱；削减进一步的酸化需要人类的行动。

• the russians are also neurotically keen to curtail the activities of non-governmental organisations.

  俄国还神经质的热衷于缩减非官方组织的活动。

• america and the european union must decide soon whether belarus’s minimal progress in a democratic direction is enough for them to curtail their sanctions on the country.

  美国和欧盟必须尽快决定白俄罗斯朝着民主方向的这一微小进步是否足以让他们削弱对该国的制裁。

相似词

abbreviate使用缩写词

condense使浓缩；使压缩

shorten缩短；变短

contract收缩，缩短；感染；订约；订（婚）；负（债）；结交

whittle(Whittle)人名；(英)惠特尔

cut缩减的；割下的；雕过的

reduce减少；缩小；归纳为

abridge删节；缩短；节略

compress压缩，压紧；精简

compress压缩，压紧；精简

minimize最小化

shorten缩短；变短

lessen减少；减轻；变小

abbreviate使用缩写词

abridge删节；缩短；节略

cut缩减的；割下的；雕过的

condense使浓缩；使压缩

economize节约，节省；有效地利用

abate减轻；失效

diminish减少，缩小；变小

contract收缩，缩短；感染；订约；订（婚）；负（债）；结交

reduce减少；缩小；归纳为

abstinence节制；节欲；戒酒；禁食

相反词

lengthen延长；变长

prolong延长；拖延