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curb

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n. 抑制；路边；勒马绳
vt. 控制；勒住

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Mr Obama's plan to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (排放), though necessary, will be far from cost-free, whatever his sunny speeches on the subject might suggest.

If he succeeds in curbing costs—a big if—it would be a huge gain for America.

Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.

How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming

curb his desire for online gaming

It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.

Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate (使持久) a free fall.

To curb the fear of a lasting free fall

Its inability to curb the carbon emissions from industries.

That conclusion was reinforced by another finding: that their opposition appeared to soften when that fiscal burden decreased, as occurred with welfare reform in the 1990s, which curbed immigrants' access to certain benefits.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

The use of privacy law to curb the tech giants in this instance feels slightly maladapted.

Attempts have been made to curb this tendency, for example, by trying to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's papers.

The key messages that have been put together for World Environment Day do include a call for governments to enact legislation to curb single-use plastics.

They argue that government action is necessary to curb Britain's addiction to unhealthy food and help halt spiraling rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment -- including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line -- Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.