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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。