| 词汇 | act as a brake on something |
| 释义 | act as a brake on somethingact as a brake on something SLOWto make something develop more slowly, be more difficult to do, or happen less 对某事物起抑制作用，遏制某事物 Rises in interest rates act as a brake on expenditure. 加息对消费起抑制作用。 Examples from the Corpus act as a brake on something• To what extent do girls act as brakes on, or motivators of, delinquent behaviour in masculine adolescent gang-culture, for example?• Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.• Unfortunately, widespread foot-dragging continues to act as a brake on debt relief.• In April 1992 they persuaded Boris Yeltsin to put three industrialists into the government to act as a brake on the free-marketeers. → act as a brake on something at brake1(1) |
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