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

• If the Greeks voted Yes, the curtailing of ECB support might be reversed.
  如果希腊人投赞成票，欧洲央行减少支援的情况也许会逆转。
• Credit markets are gummed up, curtailing company investment and consumer spending.
  信贷市场出现严重危机，对企业投资和消费者开支起到抑制作用。
• 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。
• Macquarie Group, the Australian bank, has shaken up its infrastructure investment business by cutting more than a 10th of its staff, curtailing the life of its latest European Fund and granting investors a discount on fees.
  澳大利亚投资银行麦格理集团（macquariegroup）已重组基础设施投资业务，裁减了逾一成的员工，缩短了旗下最新欧洲基金的寿命，并向投资者提供收费折扣。
• 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。
• Power plants in Jiangsu and Hubei provinces and the city of Shanghai were curtailing operations.
  江苏、湖北和上海的发电厂运营受限。
• 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。
• The fiscal deficit should therefore be reduced by curtailing the increases in social spending that the president advocated in his election campaign.
  因此，应通过限制社会支出增加（这是奥巴马在竞选中的主张），来减少财政赤字。
• During the course of successfully controlling inflation and effectively curtailing the trend of deflation, China has accumulated rich macro-control experiences.
  在成功地治理通货膨胀和有效地抑制通货紧缩趋势的过程中，中央积累了丰富的宏观调控经验。
• Guarding Against Inflation While Curtailing Deflation Never suppress specific compiler warnings.
  既要抑制通缩，又要警惕通胀永远不要抑制特定的编译警告（图略）。