curtail 是什么意思
vt. 缩减；剪短；剥夺…特权等
curtail 记忆方法
1. curtus "short, cut short, cut off, shortened" => curtail.
2. 同源词：curt, curtail.
3. Originally curtal, used of horses with docked tails, which probably influenced the spelling.
4. => make short.
5. （记）cur+tail 谐音"割尾巴"；联想"截短，缩短"
curtail 中文词源
curtail 缩短
来自PIE*sker, 剪，切，词源同shear, short. -ault, 贬义后缀，词源同valiant, 勇敢的，顽固的。比较-ard, 贬义后缀，来自hard, 见bastard. 原指剪短尾巴的马，拼写受tail影响俗化。
英语词源
curtailcurtail: [16] The now defunct English noun curtal meant ‘horse with a docked tail’. It was borrowed in the 16th century from French courtault, a derivative of the adjective court ‘short’. Like English c
curtail 权威例句
- 1. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. 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。
来自辞典例句
- 3. It is necessary to curtail or alter normally coexisting stimuli.
- 必需消除或改变正常时并存的刺激.
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- 4. Again the purpose of this action was to curtail inflation.
- 此行动的目的在于抑制通货膨胀.
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- 5. In all cases we'll curtail baggage handling.
- 在任何情况之下,我们要简化行李的发送.
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curtail 造句
- 1. The state could not curtail such activities without inflaming the entire populace, although it periodically tried.
- 国家不能在不激怒全体民众的情况下缩减这种企业活动，尽管它做过周期性的尝试。
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- 2. For parents, this means now is the time to curtail the cycle of debt and create a savings plan for your child’s future.
- 对于家长来说，这意味着现在我们到了缩减债务周期并为子女的将来开启一个储蓄理财计划的时候了。
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- 3. A fractured Libya will not only curtail oil exports, it will open the gates to a flood of African emigration to southern Europe.
- 破碎的利比亚将不仅缩减石油出口，他将打开大批非洲人到南欧的移民大门。
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- 4. North Korea in the past has promised to curtail its nuclear program in exchange for energy and economic aid.
- 北朝鲜在过去曾允诺缩减核计划来换取能源和经济的援助。
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- 5. If it were to curtail its purchases of dollar-denominated securities drastically, the dollar would likely fall and American interest rates could soar.
- 如果大量缩减其所购入的美元计价证券，美元就有可能贬值，而美国利率也有可能升高。
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- 6. When theAuthor’s Guild tried to getAmazon to curtail its used-book market, the companyrefused to backdown.
- 当美国著作权协会试图让亚马逊缩减其旧书市场的时候，这家公司拒绝让步。
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- 7. If you are expecting both people to grow in the same direction and in the same way, that is unfair to both people. It will curtail and suffocate both of their lives.
- 如果你期望两个人都能朝着同一个方向用同样的方式成长，这对两个人都是不公平的，这也会压抑和剥夺彼此的生活乐趣。
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- 8. And over time, he and successive administrations took steps to mitigate that risk and curtail the spread of nuclear weapons.
- 随着时间的推移，他和其后历届政府都采取步骤降低这种风险，阻遏核武器的扩散。
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- 9. No one will curtail you to do things that make you happy.
- 没有人能够剥夺你做使你快乐的事情的权利。
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- 10. Even if there is no law to curtail freedom of speech, if we are effectively discouraged from speaking through informal means, then this freedom has no real substance.
- 虽然现在的法律还没有限制言论自由，但如果我们不能在一般场合勇于表达自己的意见，这种所谓的自由其实是名存实亡。
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- 11. As species wither, the marine food chain could be disrupted; human action is needed to curtail further acidification.
- 随着物种萧条，海洋食物链可能会被扰乱；削减进一步的酸化需要人类的行动。
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- 12. As species wither, the marine food chain could be disrupted; human action is needed to curtail further acidification.
- 随着物种萧条，海洋食物链可能会被扰乱；削减进一步的酸化需要人类的行动。
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