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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The main difficulties in the large-scale composite generation and transmission system adequacy evaluation are the power flow calculation and the load curtailment analysis.
  超大规模发输电系统充裕度评估的2个主要困难是潮流计算和切负荷计算。
• 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；
• 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。
• Optimal Load Curtailment in Bulk Power System Reliability Evaluation
  大电网可靠性评估最优负荷削减模型
• 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。
• The most glaring omission in the NDRC directive is the curtailment of the state-owned enterprises ( SOEs).
  发改委的这份文件没有提到要缩减国有企业规模，这点最为引人注意。