curtail是什么意思,curtail怎么用
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curtail
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📰 外刊例句
This could curtail the nascent field of beneficial AI, or create cartels with a stranglehold on AI innovation. 这可能会限制有益人工智能的新兴领域,或者形成钳制人工智能创新的卡特尔。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[verb] reduce in extent or quantity;
impose
a restriction on
[动词] 在程度或数量上减少;对……施加限制
💡 深入解读
从词源上来看, curtail 是一个基于古法语courtault(缩短),并在拼写上受中古英语taillen(切)和 tail (尾巴)的影响而来的单词。该词最早于15世纪末出现在英语中,相应也是用来表示“缩短、剪短、截短”以及“减少、削减、限制”,常作正式用语使用,主要指(似乎)通过切除某些部分来减少或限制某个事物,包括缩短某事的持续时间或者在某事完成之前停止它,多意味着在某种程度上剥夺了事物的完整性或充分性
缩短假期
curtail holiday
缩减开支
curtail spending
a promising political career curtailed by scandal被丑闻断送前途的政治生涯
📚 名著用例
Long after the little birds had left their nests; long after bees had come in the sweet prime of day to gather the heath honey before the dew was dried — when the long morning shadows were curtailed , and the sun filled earth and sky — I got up, and I looked round me. 小鸟早已离开他们的巢穴,早露未干蜜蜂便早已在一天的黄金时刻飞到欧石南丛中采蜜,早晨长长的影子缩短了,太阳普照大地和天空,我才起身,朝四周看了看。
— 出自《英国女作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特(Charlotte Brontë)创作的具有自传色彩的长篇小说《简·爱》( Jane Eyre )。》
🔍 同近义词
- lessen: make or become less; diminish
- diminish: make or become less
- retrench: reduce or diminish (something) in extent or quantity

