| 词汇 | curbed |
| 释义 | curbed past simple and past participle ofcurb curb verb[ T ] uk /kɜːb/ us /kɝːb/ C2 to control or limit something that is not wanted: 控制；限制，约束；抑制 The government should act to curb tax evasion.政府应该采取行动抑制逃税。 He is someone who finds it difficult to curb his fleshly desires. You really need to curb your spending. The police are trying to curb under-age drinking. Limiting and restricting anti-libertarian armlock boundary box someone out box someone/something in crippling cripplingly crowd curb curtail keep (herself) to herselfidiom keep something down limit limitation limitative stunt suffocatingly tempered tie someone down tie someone up Examples of curbedcurbed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. While the theatre was to be the bastion of progress, traditional popular festivities such as carnival with its subversive potential for social inversion, were curbed. Campaigners swore that women's selfish indulgence would be curbed, their obedience compelled if it could not be enjoined. This curbed togetherness with family and contributed to a feeling of loneliness and was emotionally difficult to handle. That would have enabled an early enforcement of preventive action including immunoprophylaxis, which might have curbed the outbreak earlier. Lithium carbonate was started at that point, and although it did not prevent the episode, it probably curbed the severity somewhat and shortened the course. A people, ' curbed under the exigencies of the unlimited division of property ', remained under the thumb of fiscal agents and salaried functionaries. He is not curbed by any written law or custom and those whom he oppresses have not so much as a right to complain. Indeed, there is little understanding that growth in consumption by the rich should be curbed. There is no doubt that his comparative isolation has brought benefits and forms of insight that might otherwise have been curbed. On closer inspection, only the department stores were curbed and temporary trade tackled. But if these institutions were constraints that curbed the universal mechanisms of politics, making them work democratically, what is their origin? Signs suggest that in recent years the development of the first type has been curbed by some structural restraints, such as strengthened market regulations and anti-corruption measures. In terms of public ethics and the administration of justice, the mere knowledge of the existence of this mechanism may have curbed excesses by ordinary judges and magistrates. The utility of such an ex ante-compiled list of scientific norms is thus significantly curbed and just at the moment when it is supposed to be invoked. The music teacher's satisfaction with the results might be curbed by the fact that remarkably few pupils' descriptions of music experiences expressly referred to school activities. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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