curb
curb 英 [kɜ:b] 美 [kɜrb]
n. 抑制；路边；勒马绳 vt. 控制；勒住
进行时:curbing 过去式:curbed 过去分词:curbed 第三人称单数:curbs 名词复数:curbs
- 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.
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- n. 抑制；路边；勒马绳
- vt. 控制；勒住
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1. If she can't curb this trait and you don't want the friendship to end, limit how long you let her go on about herself; then give yourself equal air time.
如果她不能抑制这种性格，而你不也想要终结这种友谊，就限制她絮絮叨叨谈论自己的时间，然后，给自己同样长的发表意见的时间。
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2. We should increase input in agriculture, develop advanced technologies, curb market speculation, increase food assistance and intensify cooperation in agriculture and food.
我们应该加大农业投入，发展先进技术，抑制市场投机，增加粮食援助，加强农业和粮食合作。
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3. Such measures include implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, such as raising taxes on tobacco, banning tobacco advertising and legislating to curb smoking in public places.
这些措施包括《世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约》的执行，如：提高烟草税、禁止烟草广告及通过立法抑制在公共场所吸烟等。
- curb (n.) late 15c., "strap passing under the jaw of a horse" (used to restrain the animal), from Old French courbe (12c.) "curb on a horse," from Latin curvus, from curvare "to bend," from PIE root *sker- (2) "to turn, bend." Meaning "enclosed framework" is from 1510s, probably originally with a notion of "curved;" extended to margins of garden beds 1731; to "margin of stone between a sidewalk and road" 1791 (sometimes spelled kerb). Figurative sense of "a check, a restraint" is from 1610s.
- curb (v.) 1520s, of horses, "to lead to a curb," from curb (n.). Figurative use from 1580s. Related: Curbed; curbing.
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