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

• Fears that China might clamp down on bank lending prompted a sell-off in the previous session.
  出于对中国可能会收紧银行放贷的担忧，大宗商品在前一交易日中遭到抛售。
• 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。
• Regulators sought to clamp down on this market after the crisis as it was widely blamed for helping to inflate the credit bubble.
  监管机构在金融危机过后曾寻求取缔这个市场，因为它被广泛指责为加剧了信贷泡沫膨胀。
• 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。
• 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。
• There's been a major clamp down on illegal aliens marrying for residency status.
  我们一直在极力取缔外国人为居留和绿卡而结婚的不法行为。
• 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。
• I finally had to clamp down.
  最后我只好不尝了。
• We must clamp down now, before it's too late to stop the trouble.
  我们现在就必须制止闹事，否则就来不及了。
• After all, several times in the past three decades, US politicians have tried to clamp down on derivatives and each time the Wall Street lobby has fought back.
  毕竟，过去30年中，有那么几次，美国政治家曾试图对衍生品施压而每一次华尔街游说组织都予以还击。