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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• When did the enemy choke off our supplies?
  敌人是什么时候切断我们的供给线的？
• 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）
• 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。
• 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。