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

• The first chance to choke off the flow for good should come in about a week.
  第一个能阻止石油流的好机会大约一周左右会出现。
• They do not want to choke off nascent markets, for understandable competitive reasons.
  出于可以理解的竞争因素考虑，这些国家不想扼杀新兴的市场。
• 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。
• Treasury borrowing of existing savings would drive up the interest rate and choke off economic activity ( Paul Craig Roberts)
  国库从现有储蓄中借款会迫使利率上升和使经济活动停滞（保罗克雷格罗伯茨）
• World trade was surprisingly resilient over the summer but the growth rate remains on a negative trend as the global economic downturn threatens to choke off demand, according to an indicator of international goods commerce.
  一项国际商品贸易指标显示，今年夏季，全球贸易意外表现出了很强的弹性，但随着全球经济低迷可能抑制需求，全球贸易增长仍呈下滑趋势。
• 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。
• All governments, especially those with the ropiest public finances, should think boldly about how to lower their debt ratios in the medium term& in ways that do not choke off nascent private demand.
  所有国家的政府，特别是那些公共财政情况糟糕的国家政府，应该大胆思索如何在中期降低它们的负债率&并确保实现该目标的手段不会阻塞刚开始出现的私人需求。
• 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。
• That reluctance reflects fears that higher rates could choke off domestic recovery and push up Asian currencies against the US dollar, harming trade prospects.
  这种不情愿反映出官方的担心，即利率上调可能扼杀国内复苏，并推高亚洲货币兑美元的汇率，从而损害本国的贸易前景。
• The procedure would effectively choke off the lines and openings of the old blowout preventer that failed to shut off the flow of oil after the explosion on the drilling rig in April.
  过程可以地封闭原有防喷器的管线和开口，部位在水上钻台四月爆炸后都无法止住原油从海底涌出。