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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• For one, Beijing is trying to clamp down on illegal, unsafe and polluting mining across all commodities.
  第一，中国正试图取缔非法、不安全且造成污染的各类大宗原料开采。
• 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。
• He must clamp down on tax evasion.
  他必须打击逃税。
• 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。
• 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。
• But a close second is the extent to which regulators clamp down on the sector.
  但紧随其后的因素，是监管部门对该行业的整治力度。