curb是什么意思？

Mr Obama's plan to curb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions (排放), though necessary, will be far from cost-free, whatever his sunny speeches on the subject might suggest.

If he succeeds in curbing costs—a big if—it would be a huge gain for America.

Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heat-trapping gases.

How rich and poor regions can share responsibility in curbing global warming

curb his desire for online gaming

It is not easy to curb the rising medical costs in America.

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 (使持久) a free fall.

To curb the fear of a lasting free fall

Its inability to curb the carbon emissions from industries.

That conclusion was reinforced by another finding: that their opposition appeared to soften when that fiscal burden decreased, as occurred with welfare reform in the 1990s, which curbed immigrants' access to certain benefits.