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。
• Yet it is also essential that nations resist the temptation to overcorrect by imposing regulations that would stifle innovation and choke off growth.
  国家也要避免矫枉过正而导致限制创新和中断增长。
• When did the enemy choke off our supplies?
  敌人是什么时候切断我们的供给线的？
• He predicted that rapid spending cuts would choke off the economic recovery that was under way when the chancellor took office in2010.
  他为不能如此的削减开支而辩护，他预言如此下去将会阻止自2010年奥斯伯恩先生就任财政大臣以来的经济复苏。
• 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。
• Meanwhile, mushrooming mortgage losses at various federally controlled lenders could choke off some of the credit flowing to households.
  与此同时，诸多由联邦政府控制的银行抵押贷款亏损激增，可能会阻止一部分信贷流入家庭。
• 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 a letter to the Group of 20 leading economies in advance of their summit in Cannes beginning on Thursday, the IIF said that demands for banks to raise fresh capital threatened to choke off the supply of credit to businesses and provoke more sell-offs in sovereign debt.
  在致20国集团的一封信中，国际金融协会表示，要求银行增加资本可能会妨碍向企业提供信贷，并使更多的主权债券遭到抛售。20国集团将于周四在戛纳召开峰会。
• Higher energy prices could choke off any global economic recovery.
  能源价格上涨可能扼杀全球经济复苏。
• Air quality problems choke off views, poison plants, and even foul water.
  被污染的空气遮挡视线，毒害植物，甚至污染水资源。