curtail是什么意思

双语用例

• In addition, the governmental reactions to violence often go in the direction of further curtailing the civil rights of the popular sector.

• Such an approach would be an important step in improving the overall use of broad-spectrum antibiotics and curtailing the development of resistant micro-organisms.

• If outlays threaten to exceed the threshold, allotments must be reduced and/or enrollments curtailed unless the cap is expressly overridden by legislative action.

• The 1957-59 period witnessed pressures from politicians, students, and labour to curtail military power and excesses.

• Economic liberalisation may curtail some forms of grand corruption but others may become easier.

• It was curtailed once the money dried up with the phasing out of privatisation and the nation's economic contraction that set in after 1997.

• In the absence of partners, older people sometimes found their social networks curtailed.

• Faced with this reality, families made the decision to give individual choice priority over social norms and ended up curtailing their fertility.