refrain/check/curb/inhibit/restrain.导航词义：阻止

1. refrain:v. 克制，抑制.指忍住不做某事，常后接介词 from。

He refrained from smoking.

他忍住不吸烟。

For losing weight, she refrained from eating chocolate after supper.

为了减肥，她强忍着在晚饭后不吃巧克力。

2. check:v. 克制，阻碍，抑制.指因意识到不对而忍住不做某事或克制感情，也指阻止不好的事情恶化或继续发生。

They had to check the urge to laugh out loud, not wanting to upset Susan.

他们只得憋住不让自己大声笑出来，以免惹苏珊不开心。

Adequate measures have been taken to check the growth in crime.

已经采取适当的措施来阻止犯罪率上升。

It is important to check the growth of public spending.

控制公共开支的增长很重要。

3. curb:v. 控制，抑制.指为了防止造成有害的影响而控制或约束某事物。

The government immediately took measures to curb the spread of the virus.

政府立刻采取措施控制病毒的扩散。

The policies to curb inflation have worked.

控制通货膨胀的政策见效了。

4. inhibit:v. 阻止，抑制.指妨碍某事物发展。

Too much time in front of the TV may inhibit children's learning.

看电视太多可能会妨碍儿童的学习。

Enough alcohol may inhibit the excitatory parts of the brain.

足够的酒精可能会抑制大脑中起兴奋作用的组织。

5. restrain:v. 阻止，克制，抑制.含义广泛，常指以武力阻止某人做某事，也指克制情绪、行为或控制、限制某事物。

The suspect had to be restrained by the police.

警察只好强行制住嫌疑人。

He restrained a feeling of annoyance, although his girlfriend was late again.

尽管女朋友又一次迟到，他还是忍住没发脾气。

She could barely restrain from crying in front of her best friend.

她差点就忍不住在最好的朋友面前大哭。

What factors could restrain consumer spending?

哪些因素会抑制消费支出？

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1·He needs to learn to curb his temper.

他得学着控制自己的脾气。《牛津词典》

2·It's easier to pick up apples than to drag tree branches all the way to the curb.

摘苹果比把树枝一直拖到路边要容易得多。

3·If patients pay very little out of their own pockets, they have little desire to curb consumption.

如果病人自掏腰包支付的钱很少，他们就不会有遏制消费的意愿。

4·On the horizon we have the positive application of neurogastronomy; manipulating flavor to curb our appetites.

我们即将看到神经美食学的积极应用，即通过操控食物的味道来抑制我们的食欲。

5·The Thai government has been unable to curb the violence, though thousands of troops have been sent to the south.

泰国政府一直无法遏制暴力，尽管已经向南部派遣了成千上万的士兵。

6·Several days later, I was bringing our garbage bins back from the curb when I noticed an envelope taped to one of the lids.

几天后，我把垃圾桶从路边拿回来时，注意到一个盖子上贴着一个信封。

7·If she can't curb this trait and you don't want the friendship to end, limit how long you let her go on about herself; then give yourself equal air time.

如果她不能抑制这种性格，而你不也想终结这种友谊，就限制她谈论自己的时间；然后，给自己同样长的时间发表意见。

8·We should increase input in agriculture, develop advanced technologies, curb market speculation, increase food assistance and intensify cooperation in food.

我们应该加大农业投入，发展先进技术，抑制市场投机，增加粮食援助并加强粮食合作。

9·Attempts have been made to curb this kind tendency to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's published papers.

人们已经做出努力来遏制这种倾向，即将一些质量和数量的衡量标准纳入对申请人发表论文的评估当中。

10·Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate a free fall.

无论如何，所有这些复杂的措施都有相同的心理目的：让人们相信自由落体运动将会停止，从而抑制人们对自由落体运动持续下去的恐惧。

抑制

1·On the horizon we have the positive application of neurogastronomy; manipulating flavor to curb our appetites.

我们即将看到神经美食学的积极应用，即通过操控食物的味道来抑制我们的食欲。

2·If she can't curb this trait and you don't want the friendship to end, limit how long you let her go on about herself; then give yourself equal air time.

如果她不能抑制这种性格，而你不也想终结这种友谊，就限制她谈论自己的时间；然后，给自己同样长的时间发表意见。

3·We should increase input in agriculture, develop advanced technologies, curb market speculation, increase food assistance and intensify cooperation in food.

我们应该加大农业投入，发展先进技术，抑制市场投机，增加粮食援助并加强粮食合作。

4·If patients pay very little out of their own pockets they have little desire to curb consumption.

如果病人自己掏腰包时只要付得很少的话，他们就没有抑制消费的愿望。

5·Such measures include implementing the WHO Framework Convention on tobacco Control, such as raising taxes on tobacco, banning tobacco advertising and legislating to curb smoking in public places.

这些措施包括《世界卫生组织烟草控制框架公约》的执行，如：提高烟草税、禁止烟草广告及通过立法抑制在公共场所吸烟等。

控制

1·He needs to learn to curb his temper.

他得学着控制自己的脾气。《牛津词典》

2·But we do need to act convincingly to curb future deficits.

但我们需要采取令人信服的行动来控制将来的赤字。

3·To begin, curb your spending.

从控制你的花销开始。

4·Those moves, if enacted into law, would make it harder — not easier — to keep Republican commitments to curb the national debt and the budget deficit.

如果将这些行动写进法律的话，将会让共和党人履行关于控制国债和赤字规模的承诺，变得更加困难。

5·If saying to yourself, I'm wasting time, isn't enough to curb your behavior, take more proactive steps.

如果你对自己说：“我正在浪费时间”，这不足以控制你的行为，采取更主动的一步。

路边

1·It's easier to pick up apples than to drag tree branches all the way to the curb.

摘苹果比把树枝一直拖到路边要容易得多。

2·Joseph idled the car at the curb.

约瑟夫大大咧咧地把车停靠在路边。

3·And then he sees her-sitting on the curb, cradling her head in her arms, going boo hoo.

就在此时，他看到了她：坐在路边，双手抱着头，嘘嘘喘大气。

4·There were double yellow no parking lines in the narrow road outside Aziraphale's bookshop, but they obediently rolled back on themselves when the Bentley pulled in to the curb.

亚茨拉菲尔书店门前的窄路上画着禁止停车的双黄线，宾利车靠路边停下了。双黄线恭顺的向后退去。

5·He pulls the car up to the curb.

他把车停到路边。

制止

1·If we want to curb it, we need to consider whether there are effective methods.

如果要制止它的话，需要考虑是不是有行之有效的办法？

2·And they say society has an obligation to curb a destructive trade as much as possible.

同时他们说，社会有责任尽可能地制止有破坏性质的产业。

3·Though the central bank says it is taking measures to curb inflation their efforts are not producing results.

虽然央行说他们已经在采取措施制止通货膨胀，但却没什么效果。

4·Though the central bank says it is taking measures to curb inflation, their efforts are not producing results.

虽然央行说他们已经在采取措施制止通货膨胀，但却没什么效果。

5·Half the body's 88 members joined in the past decade—helping to make it deadlocked and dysfunctional, unable either to curb whale hunts or to reauthorise them.

委员会的88个加盟国在过去十年中只有一半参与了这场战争，导致委员会无法执行功能，陷入了即不能制止也不能重新授权捕鲸行为的僵局中。

路缘

1·It's illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while you're sitting on a curb in St. Louis!

在圣路易斯，坐在路缘上喝从酒桶里接下来的啤酒就违反了法律。

2·He parked his car close to the curb.

他将汽车停在紧靠人行道路缘的地方。

3·A small ramp built into the curb of a sidewalk to ease passage to the street, especially for bicyclists, pedestrians with baby carriages, and physically disabled people.

一种小的建入人行道路缘的小斜坡，以使人可以方便地进入街道，尤指专为骑自行车者、推着婴儿车的行人以及残疾人设置的坡。

4·Double corner curb. Corner radius can be specified.

双拐角路缘。可指定拐角的半径。

5·And caught on tape: A car jumps the curb and barrels into an Arkansas supermarket, injuring two customers. The 86-year-old driver says she was trying to the park when she lost control of the vehicle.

在这部抓拍的录象带上，一辆轿车跃过了路缘并冲进了阿肯色州的一家超市，造成了两名顾客受伤，这位86岁高龄驾车的老太太解释道她在努力停车时失去了对车的控制。

路缘石

1·Cement water spraying of highway curb and roadside tree is very important in high grade road maintenance engineering.

公路路缘石和行道树的灰水喷白是高等级道路养护工程的主要作业内容之一。

(1)curb inflation抑制通货膨胀

(1)curb marketn. 场外交易市场；股票证券场外交易市场