curtailment

英 [kɜːˈteɪlmənt]

美 [kɜːrˈteɪlmənt]

n.  减缩; 缩短; 限制

复数：curtailments　

经济

BNC.22731 / COCA.27953

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 减缩;缩短;限制
  Thecurtailment ofsomething is the act of reducing or limiting it.
  1. ...a considerable curtailment of military spending.
     军费开支的大幅减缩
  2. ...the curtailment of presidential power.
     对总统权力的限制

英英释义

noun

• the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable
  Synonym:retrenchmentdownsizing
• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation
  1. a suppression of the newspaper
  Synonym:suppression
• the temporal property of being cut short

双语例句

• More than half the participants focused on conservation by curtailment: switching off the lights, changing thermostat settings and driving less.
  超过半数的受访者认为减少使用是节能重点例如关灯、调节温度器设置以及少开车。
• Characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment.
  以减少或减缩为特点，或者导致减少或减缩。
• Suffrage: At the same time, we believe that this class of American citizens should protest emphatically and continually against the curtailment of their political rights.
  选举权：同时，我们认为美国公民中的这一阶级应着重不断地反对剥夺他们的政治权利。
• Civil Liberty: We believe also in protest against the curtailment of our civil rights.
  公民自由：我们还支持反对剥夺我们民权的斗争。
• It is KFC with crisis management does a very good job in the aspects of preparation, curtailment, reaction and resilience that takes the emersion of the success for a mature enterprise during its crises management.
  肯德鸡的危机管理在预备力，缩减力，反应力和恢复力方面表现得都非常出色，再现了一家成熟企业在危机管理过程中的成功之处。
• This model uses the relative entropy as the objective function of the curtailment optimization problem.
  在此基础上，为了克服它们的不足之处，引入了相对熵的概念，采用相对熵作为交易裁减优化问题的目标函数，提出了双边交易裁减的相对熵模型。
• The main difficulties in the large-scale composite generation and transmission system adequacy evaluation are the power flow calculation and the load curtailment analysis.
  超大规模发输电系统充裕度评估的2个主要困难是潮流计算和切负荷计算。
• Several factors worked during this stage, and these included curtailment of American military budget, impulse of pursuing scale economy and market share, and also stimulation of global industries regrouping and information economy.
  这一阶段的并购主要是受到了以下几个因素影响：美国军费开支缩减，追求规模经济和市场份额的驱动，全球产业重组浪潮和知识经济的推动。
• Our ability to pay has fallen, government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income;
  我们的支付能力下降，各级政府面临收入的严重萎缩；
• To avoid further curtailment of service during hajj, assist passengers in boarding replacement buses at the designated pick up points.
  朝觐期间为防止降低服务水平，帮助乘客在指定接送点换乘汽车。