每日一词 165 curb

curb

基础篇： meaning: to control or limit something in order to prevent it from having a harmful effect

进阶篇：curb 是及物动词，意思是“控制”、“限制”。这是一个出现频率极高的单词，几乎会出现在每一期《经济学人》中。可以用它来替换 control 和 limit. 

他人很好，就是有时候不太会控制自己的脾气。

例句： He is a nice guy, and it is just that he cannot curb his temper sometimes.

很多年前纽约市为了限制高峰期交通，提高了停车费，我们就可以说：

Many years ago New York City raised parking fees in order to curb rush-hour traffic. 

北京为了控烟，几年前出台了相关法律，不过一点用都没有，就可以说

To curb smoking in public areas, Beijing rolled out a regulation against it a few years ago. Thanks to lack of enforcement, however, smokers still smoke in public, completely disregarding the rule and people around them. 

经济学人用例：

At the same time, they could work harder to curb corruption and human-rights abuses by their armies and police forces. 

Youtube 监管

Governments meanwhile are taking direct action to curb content that they deem inappropriate. 

移民问题

Mr. Legault, a former airline executive, campaigned to curb immigration, even though the province has a labor shortage, and to deny work permits to newcomers who fail tests of "Quebec values" and proficiency in French. 

It was then that Jacob Zuma began his nine-year reign as president, during which time the thuggish kleptocrat and his cronies ransacked state-owned enterprises (SOEs), plundered local and provincial governments, and ravaged the law-enforcement institutions set up to curb such lootings. 

应用篇：

1） 翻译：特朗普对移民很不友好，一上台就开始限制移民。

Trump is extremely unfriendly towards immigration and started to curb it as soon as he became president. 

Utterly unfriendly to immigration, Trump started to curb it as soon as he was elected to president. 

2） 造句：新的首相实施很多抑制通胀的政策。

The new president conducted a range of policies aimed at curbing inflation.