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

• The curtailment of military aid from the us.
  美国军事援助的减少。
• 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。
• 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。
• Study the question for considering optimal load curtailment in bulk power system adequacy evaluation.
  研究电网可靠性评估中考虑最优负荷削减的问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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
• This model uses the relative entropy as the objective function of the curtailment optimization problem.
  在此基础上，为了克服它们的不足之处，引入了相对熵的概念，采用相对熵作为交易裁减优化问题的目标函数，提出了双边交易裁减的相对熵模型。