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

• 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。
• The curtailment of military aid from the us.
  美国军事援助的减少。
• Security indices based on load curtailment and economic indices based on generation cost are presented and illustrated by the results of IEEE-14 test system.
  文中建立了以停电指标为基础的安全指标和以发电成本表示的系统经济指标，并给出了IEEE-14节点系统的仿真结果。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• In transaction curtailment study, different transaction curtailment models using different types of curtailment objectives.
  在交易裁减的研究中，不同的交易裁减模型采用了不同类型的裁减目标。
• Study the question for considering optimal load curtailment in bulk power system adequacy evaluation.
  研究电网可靠性评估中考虑最优负荷削减的问题。
• 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。