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

• Many companies are mothballing mines and curtailing exploration to conserve cash as prices tumble.
  由于价格暴跌，许多公司封存矿山、减少勘探以保存现金。
• However, food aid from China and South Korea, which supplied nearly 400,000 tons, last year allowed North Korea to order international aid agencies out of the country, curtailing the work of the WFP itself.
  然而，中国和韩国对朝鲜的粮食援助，令朝鲜在去年下令一些国际援助机构撤离，并中断了世界粮食计划署在朝鲜的工作。韩国去年向朝鲜供应了近40万吨粮食。
• Focus is on supply& not curtailing demand like India.
  关注供给而不像印度缩减需求。
• "Political parties will only be curtailing their spending power by backing proposals to curb black money," he says.
  他说：这些政客不可能冒着削减自己开销的危险来支持这个必然会导致他们的黑钱无法使用的提案。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Interest equalization tax: A tax on foreign investments for the purpose of curtailing the outflow of private funds.
  利息平衡税：为减少私人资金的外流而对外国投资征收的一种税。
• Productive efficiency occurs when production of one good can not be increased without curtailing production of another good.
  如要增加某一种商品的产量，就必须减少另外一种商品的生产，此时生产效率就高。
• Some cities started curtailing gas supplies to certain businesses.
  一些城市开始限制对部分企业的燃气供应。