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curtail v.缩减；削减；截短 (1) 她因病而减少了体育活动。(2) 政府希望缩减公共事业开支。(3) 政府希望在下个财税年度减少公家开支。(4) 因此,中国还要继续采取措施以遏制通缩的趋势。(5) 总统不得不缩短他的访问日期。 Curtail is an official-sounding word for stopping or slowing things down. The police try to curtail crime — they want there to be less crime in the world. A company may want to curtail their employees' computer time, so they spend more time working and less time goofing around. Teachers try to curtail whispering and note-passing in class. When something is curtailed, it's either stopped entirely or stopped quite a bit — it's cut short.

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英 [kɜː'teɪl] 美 [kɜːr'teɪl] (1) Illness has curtailed her sporting activities.(2) The government hopes to curtail public spending.(3) The government hopes to curtail public spending in the next tax year.(4) Given this, China will continue to take measures to curtail the trend of deflation.(5) The President had to curtail his visit. To curtail something is to slow it down, put restrictions on it, or stop it entirely. If I give up cake, I am curtailing my cake-eating. 1[VERB 动词]缩短；减缩；限制 If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.   [V n]  [FORMAL 正式]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。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。His powers will be severely curtailed.他的权力将受到极大的限制。

英语单词	curtail
英美音标	英 [kɜː'teɪl] 美 [kɜːr'teɪl]
中文释义	v.缩减；削减；截短
英语例句	(1) Illness has curtailed her sporting activities. (2) The government hopes to curtail public spending. (3) The government hopes to curtail public spending in the next tax year. (4) Given this, China will continue to take measures to curtail the trend of deflation. (5) The President had to curtail his visit.
中文例句	(1) 她因病而减少了体育活动。 (2) 政府希望缩减公共事业开支。 (3) 政府希望在下个财税年度减少公家开支。 (4) 因此,中国还要继续采取措施以遏制通缩的趋势。 (5) 总统不得不缩短他的访问日期。
vocabulary简明	To curtail something is to slow it down, put restrictions on it, or stop it entirely. If I give up cake, I am curtailing my cake-eating.
vocabulary扩展	Curtail is an official-sounding word for stopping or slowing things down. The police try to curtail crime — they want there to be less crime in the world. A company may want to curtail their employees' computer time, so they spend more time working and less time goofing around. Teachers try to curtail whispering and note-passing in class. When something is curtailed, it's either stopped entirely or stopped quite a bit — it's cut short.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]缩短；减缩；限制 If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it. [V n] [FORMAL 正式] 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。 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。 His powers will be severely curtailed. 他的权力将受到极大的限制。

Curtail I Government Hopes Public Crime Time Stopped