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Curb N Word Called Verb 动词   [V Ed

英语单词 curb
英美音标 [kə:b]
中文释义 n.控制,约束
vocab简明 The hard thing about learning how to parallel park is trying to get the car close enough to the curb without hitting it. A curb is the edge of the sidewalk beside the road.
vocab扩展 When you're using the word curb as a noun, it's the raised edging beside a street. When curb is a verb, it means to restrain or hold back, like when you curb your impulse to laugh while watching a badly acted play. Curb comes from the Latin word for "curve," curvus, which describes the shape of a restraining strap on a horse's head — in the fifteenth century, this band was called a curb.
真题原句 Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.
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[VERB 动词]控制;抑制;限定;约束 If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
  [V n]
  [be V-ed]
  [oft N on n]
  • ...advertisements aimed at curbing the spread of Aids...

    旨在控制艾滋病传播的广告

  • Inflation needs to be curbed in Russia.

    俄罗斯需要抑制通货膨胀。

  • Curb is also a noun.
    • He called for much stricter curbs on immigration.

      他呼吁对移民采取更严格的限制措施。

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[VERB 动词]控制,约束(情绪或行为) If you curb an emotion or your behaviour, you keep it under control.
  [V n]
  • He curbed his temper...

    他稳住了情绪。

  • You must curb your extravagant tastes.

    你必须控制自己铺张奢侈的嗜好。

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    来源 2010.2

    Tags: 单词::2010

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