clamp down

英 [klæmp daʊn]

美 [klæmp daʊn]

取缔; 压制; 管制; 镇压

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 取缔;压制;管制;镇压
  Toclamp down onpeople or activities means to take strong official action to stop or control them.
  1. If the government clamps down on the protestors, that will only serve to strengthen them in the long run...
     如果政府镇压抗议者，从长远来看，这将只能使他们更加坚决。
  2. Banking regulators failed to clamp down until earlier this month.
     银行监管机构直到本月初才开始严格管制。

英英释义

verb

• repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
  1. The police clamped down on illegal drugs
  Synonym:crack down

双语例句

• Banking regulators failed to clamp down until earlier this month.
  银行监管机构直到本月初才开始严格管制。
• When the President's position was threatened, he issued an order to clamp down on all anti-government activities.
  当总统的地位受到威胁时，他下令取消一切反政府活动。
• Just sneak your hand in their mouth for a second and slip it out before they clamp down.
  刚刚潜入你的手在他们的口为第二和支路出来之前，他们打击。
• Concern that the investment boom is out of control has forced the government to clamp down on new projects.
  对投资热失控的担忧已经迫使政府强制停止新的项目。
• Mr Najib and his party must resist the temptation to polarise the country or to clamp down on its freedoms in the cause of narrow political interests.
  纳吉布和他的政党必须抵御住诱惑，不能为了狭隘的政治利益而让马来西亚国民陷入严重对立或是钳制该国自由。
• France, Germany and the UK at least agree on one thing: the need to clamp down on bankers 'pay.
  法国、德国和英国至少在一件事情上达成了一致：有必要严格限制银行家的薪酬。
• The mayor had become ineffectual in the struggle to clamp down on drugs.
  市长打击毒品的努力未见成效。
• The Obama administration has promised to clamp down on cross-border flows of drugs, guns and migrants.
  奥巴马政府已承诺将取缔边境毒品交易、枪支交易以及非法偷渡。
• China said it would scrap a tax rebate on agricultural commodities exports to clamp down on foreign sales.
  中国表示，将取消农业大宗商品的出口退税，以减少粮食出口。
• This leaves us precisely where we started, with France and Germany tilting misguidedly at hedge funds while the UK and the US fear to clamp down on large banks in case they move from New York to London ( or vice-versa) or locate themselves offshore.
  这让我们不偏不倚又回到了原点：法国和德国错误地抨击对冲基金，而英国和美国不敢压制大型银行，唯恐它们一气之下从纽约搬到伦敦（或者相反），或是迁往海外。