curtailing

英 [kɜːˈteɪlɪŋ]

美 [kɜːrˈteɪlɪŋ]

v.  限制; 缩短; 减缩
curtail的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 缩短;减缩;限制
  If youcurtailsomething, you reduce or limit it.
  1. NATO plans to curtail the number of troops being sent to the region...
     北约计划缩减派往该地区的士兵数量。
  2. I told Louie that old age would curtail her activities in time...
     我告诉路易，一上年纪她的活动量就会减少。
  3. His powers will be severely curtailed.
     他的权力将受到极大的限制。

双语例句

• While stressing the need for curtailing sale of such products they urged the concerned bodies for efficacious implementation of tobacco control laws across the country.
  尽管他们强调了阻止这些产品销售的必要性，他们还敦促相关机构在全国范围内有效地执行控烟法律。
• Analysts said that the economic slowdown in Europe was already curtailing consumption.
  分析师表示，欧洲经济减速已经抑制了消费。
• Hong Kong economics would mean curtailing U.S. welfare and benefit programs, but Detroiters seem to have found the holes in the social safety net already.
  如果在经济上借用香港的方法，将意味着削减美国的福利和优惠计划，但底特律人似乎已经感受到了社会安全网上的破洞。
• However, when PDVSA, the national oil company, was unable to meet its debt-for-oil repayment schedules, it was forced to borrow from the central bank, contributing to the hard currency shortage that is fuelling inflation and curtailing imports of food.
  但是，当委内瑞拉国家石油公司（PDVSA）无法履行其债务换石油还款计划时，它被迫从央行借钱，从而加剧了硬通货短缺，助长通胀，妨碍食品进口。
• Polluting factories have been shut down in Beijing and five surrounding provinces accounting for a quarter of GDP, curtailing activities such as steel, cement and chemicals.
  北京及周边五省（其gdp占中国全国的四分之一）会造成污染的工厂被关闭，导致钢铁、水泥和化学品等生产的缩减。
• Countries can develop while curtailing climate change if they are'climate-smart ', the World Bank has said in a major new report.
  世界银行在一份重大的新报告中说，如果各国是“气候灵巧”的，它们就可以在发展的同时减少气候变化。
• International Customs Valuation System and the curtailing of non-tariff barriers; raise tariff walls against foreign goods
  国际海关估价制度与削减非关税壁垒建立关税壁垒以抵制舶来品
• This, he wrote in 1919, will ultimately result in the curtailing of the reproduction of feeble-mindedness.
  这项工作，他1919年写道，最终将导致减少有智力缺陷的人口的繁殖。
• If bad weather sets in, one should consider shortening or curtailing the planned route.
  如遇天气变坏，应审慎考虑缩短或取消所计划的行程。
• But this is not about curtailing employees'rights to privacy.
  但这套系统并不是要加大对员工的剥削力度。