choke off

英 [tʃəʊk ɒf]

美 [tʃoʊk ɔːf]

抑制，限制（经济增长）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 抑制，限制(经济增长)
  Tochoke offfinancial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
  1. They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery.
     他们警告财政大臣说，预算中税收的提高将阻碍经济复苏。

英英释义

verb

• suppress
  1. He choked down his rage
  Synonym:choke downchoke back
• become or cause to become obstructed
  1. The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
  2. The water pipe is backed up
  Synonym:clogclog upback upcongestchokefoul

双语例句

• Inflationary pressures could force East Asian central banks to tighten monetary policy "sooner rather than later" to choke off emerging asset bubbles, the World Bank warned yesterday.
  世界银行（worldbank）昨日警告，通胀压力可能迫使东亚各国的央行“更早而不是更迟”收紧货币政策，以遏制正在浮现的资产泡沫。
• To choke off their ability to function effectively.
  来让他们运转不畅。
• Countries that make an early break run the risk that higher rates and a stronger currency choke off the recovery.
  提前加息的国家面临较高利率和本币走强扼杀经济复苏的风险。
• When governments do that* they impose costs on households, they impose costs on businesses, they choke off markets and they get the exact opposite effect of what they want.
  政府关闭市场往往导致家庭和企业的成本增加和市场窒息，结果事与愿违。
• Moscow is seeking to prevent Europe from re-exporting Russian gas to Ukraine, threatening to choke off a lifeline for Kiev and deepen the energy crunch it faces this winter.
  莫斯科正寻求阻止欧洲将俄罗斯天然气再出口至乌克兰，威胁要切断基辅的生命线，加剧乌克兰在今年冬天面临的能源危机。
• Nevertheless, the growing interest from investors is a sign of stabilisation, making it less likely that worsening commercial real estate conditions will sink banks and choke off a US recovery.
  尽管如此，投资者兴趣渐浓是商用房地产企稳的一个信号，使该行业形势恶化拖垮银行、威胁到美国经济复苏的可能性有所下降。
• As Gaddafi forces seek to choke off the town – the last stand of'Free'Libya in the west of the country – an information blackout has reigned, cutting power supplies and phone networks.
  当卡扎菲的军队开始围困这座“自由”利比亚在西部的最后一个据点时，（那里的）消息断绝了，电力没有了，电话也不通了。
• But over the summer and fall, tightened local lending collided with the global financial crisis to choke off easy credit.
  但夏秋两季，当地信贷收紧，又恰逢全球金融危机，宣告了信贷宽松政策的结束。
• In India, it is that failure to modernise the country's creaking infrastructure will choke off growth.
  而印度所面临的风险是，如果该国落后的基础设施不能得以改善，其经济增长将陷入停滞。
• However, there are concerns that sharp falls in major Asian equity markets could damp investor sentiment and choke off this source of growth just as global fund groups gear up for a major sales drive.
  然而，就在全球基金业加速重大出售举动之时，市场担心，亚洲主要股市的大幅下跌可能抑制投资者人气，并扼杀这一增长源。