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

• Apart from the great curtailment of inventiveness, this schematism may be harmless for small-scale works, but when applied to large-scale, tectonic projects it leads to monstrosities.
  和创造性的削减分开，这个系统性组合可能对小比例的作品是无害的，但应用到大比例时，对于构造的项目，它可能导致畸形。
• To avoid further curtailment of service during hajj, assist passengers in boarding replacement buses at the designated pick up points.
  朝觐期间为防止降低服务水平，帮助乘客在指定接送点换乘汽车。
• The impact of pests may result in the curtailment of plantation programmes, the abandonment of a given tree species or the necessity to clearcut large areas dominated by infested trees.
  病虫害的影响可促使减少人工林计划，放弃某类树种，或不得不在大部分树木受到侵染的大面积地区实施皆伐。
• During this Period, the distribution acreage and space showed curtailment, at the same time, the natural forest were chopped down continuously.
  在这一时期内，陇东地区森林分布面积和空间均呈缩减的态势，天然森林进一步遭到破坏。
• 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。
• Electrical connectivity analysis and optimal load curtailment algorithm are used to reveal how the occurrences in the set affect power system, and forecast the possibility of cascading failure.
  就该集合中的事件，用电气连通性分析和最优削负荷方法评估其对电网的影响程度，预测发生连锁故障的可能性，并提出一套新的可靠性指标描述连锁反应的规模。
• 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。
• In this model, the congestion management methods based on the OPF are applied with generation adjustment and load curtailment used to alleviate network congestion.
  该模型基于OPF的阻塞管理方法，其中以最小成本为目标采用发电出力调节和切负荷两种手段消除网络阻塞，从而达到优化配置资源、提高社会效益的目的。
• The governor announced the curtailment of privileges long enjoyed by inmates at the prison.
  总督宣布减少囚犯们长期享受的特别待遇。
• 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。