choke off

1. PHRASAL VERB 抑制，限制(经济增长)
   To choke off financial growth means to restrict or control the rate at which a country's economy can grow.
   1. They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery.
      他们警告财政大臣说，预算中税收的提高将阻碍经济复苏。

1. They warned the Chancellor that raising taxes in the Budget could choke off the recovery.
   他们警告财政大臣说，预算中税收的提高将阻碍经济复苏。
2. But over the summer and fall, tightened local lending collided with the global financial crisis to choke off easy credit.
   但夏秋两季，当地信贷收紧，又恰逢全球金融危机，宣告了信贷宽松政策的结束。
3. When governments do that* they impose costs on households, they impose costs on businesses, they choke off markets and they get the exact opposite effect of what they want.
   政府关闭市场往往导致家庭和企业的成本增加和市场窒息，结果事与愿违。
4. Yet it is also essential that nations resist the temptation to overcorrect by imposing regulations that would stifle innovation and choke off growth.
   国家也要避免矫枉过正而导致限制创新和中断增长。
5. Moscow is seeking to prevent Europe from re-exporting Russian gas to Ukraine, threatening to choke off a lifeline for Kiev and deepen the energy crunch it faces this winter.
   莫斯科正寻求阻止欧洲将俄罗斯天然气再出口至乌克兰，威胁要切断基辅的生命线，加剧乌克兰在今年冬天面临的能源危机。
6. They do not want to choke off nascent markets, for understandable competitive reasons.
   出于可以理解的竞争因素考虑，这些国家不想扼杀新兴的市场。
7. Nevertheless, the growing interest from investors is a sign of stabilisation, making it less likely that worsening commercial real estate conditions will sink banks and choke off a US recovery.
   尽管如此，投资者兴趣渐浓是商用房地产企稳的一个信号，使该行业形势恶化拖垮银行、威胁到美国经济复苏的可能性有所下降。
8. As Gaddafi forces seek to choke off the town – the last stand of'Free'Libya in the west of the country – an information blackout has reigned, cutting power supplies and phone networks.
   当卡扎菲的军队开始围困这座“自由”利比亚在西部的最后一个据点时，（那里的）消息断绝了，电力没有了，电话也不通了。
9. The IEA said in its monthly report: Supply growth so far this year has been poor and higher prices are needed to choke off demand to balance the market.
   国际能源机构在其月度报告中称：今年以来，供应增长一直乏力，要抑制需求、令市场达到平衡，油价需要上涨。
10. Higher energy prices could choke off any global economic recovery.
    能源价格上涨可能扼杀全球经济复苏。
11. When did the enemy choke off our supplies?
    敌人是什么时候切断我们的供给线的？
12. Meanwhile, mushrooming mortgage losses at various federally controlled lenders could choke off some of the credit flowing to households.
    与此同时，诸多由联邦政府控制的银行抵押贷款亏损激增，可能会阻止一部分信贷流入家庭。
13. Countries that make an early break run the risk that higher rates and a stronger currency choke off the recovery.
    提前加息的国家面临较高利率和本币走强扼杀经济复苏的风险。
14. World trade was surprisingly resilient over the summer but the growth rate remains on a negative trend as the global economic downturn threatens to choke off demand, according to an indicator of international goods commerce.
    一项国际商品贸易指标显示，今年夏季，全球贸易意外表现出了很强的弹性，但随着全球经济低迷可能抑制需求，全球贸易增长仍呈下滑趋势。
15. In a letter to the Group of 20 leading economies in advance of their summit in Cannes beginning on Thursday, the IIF said that demands for banks to raise fresh capital threatened to choke off the supply of credit to businesses and provoke more sell-offs in sovereign debt.
    在致20国集团的一封信中，国际金融协会表示，要求银行增加资本可能会妨碍向企业提供信贷，并使更多的主权债券遭到抛售。20国集团将于周四在戛纳召开峰会。
16. Air quality problems choke off views, poison plants, and even foul water.
    被污染的空气遮挡视线，毒害植物，甚至污染水资源。
17. The first chance to choke off the flow for good should come in about a week.
    第一个能阻止石油流的好机会大约一周左右会出现。
18. In India, it is that failure to modernise the country's creaking infrastructure will choke off growth.
    而印度所面临的风险是，如果该国落后的基础设施不能得以改善，其经济增长将陷入停滞。
19. To choke off their ability to function effectively.
    来让他们运转不畅。
20. He predicted that rapid spending cuts would choke off the economic recovery that was under way when the chancellor took office in2010.
    他为不能如此的削减开支而辩护，他预言如此下去将会阻止自2010年奥斯伯恩先生就任财政大臣以来的经济复苏。
21. In practice, the extra inspections of shipping containers and the campaign to choke off terror finance made hardly any difference.
    事实上，对海运集装箱的额外检查和遏制恐怖主义资金的行动几乎没有造成任何影响。
22. Gazprom's warning came as the western countries 'energy watchdog said high oil prices were needed to choke off demand and bring the market into balance.
    与此同时，西方国家的能源监督机构表示，要抑制需求，令市场达到平衡，高油价是必需的。
23. This would choke off supplies of fresh credit to the economy and lead to a more severe downturn.
    这将扼制经济中新的信贷供应，引发更为严重的经济低迷。
24. Inflationary pressures could force East Asian central banks to tighten monetary policy "sooner rather than later" to choke off emerging asset bubbles, the World Bank warned yesterday.
    世界银行（worldbank）昨日警告，通胀压力可能迫使东亚各国的央行“更早而不是更迟”收紧货币政策，以遏制正在浮现的资产泡沫。
25. They believe governments will prove reluctant to introduce overly onerous transaction taxes or limits in case they choke off vital foreign investment or trigger capital flight.
    他们认为，各国政府终究不愿出台过于繁冗的交易税或限制，以免扼杀关键的外国投资或引发资本逃逸。
26. The procedure would effectively choke off the lines and openings of the old blowout preventer that failed to shut off the flow of oil after the explosion on the drilling rig in April.
    过程可以地封闭原有防喷器的管线和开口，部位在水上钻台四月爆炸后都无法止住原油从海底涌出。
27. However, there are concerns that sharp falls in major Asian equity markets could damp investor sentiment and choke off this source of growth just as global fund groups gear up for a major sales drive.
    然而，就在全球基金业加速重大出售举动之时，市场担心，亚洲主要股市的大幅下跌可能抑制投资者人气，并扼杀这一增长源。
28. That reluctance reflects fears that higher rates could choke off domestic recovery and push up Asian currencies against the US dollar, harming trade prospects.
    这种不情愿反映出官方的担心，即利率上调可能扼杀国内复苏，并推高亚洲货币兑美元的汇率，从而损害本国的贸易前景。
29. All governments, especially those with the ropiest public finances, should think boldly about how to lower their debt ratios in the medium term& in ways that do not choke off nascent private demand.
    所有国家的政府，特别是那些公共财政情况糟糕的国家政府，应该大胆思索如何在中期降低它们的负债率&并确保实现该目标的手段不会阻塞刚开始出现的私人需求。
30. Treasury borrowing of existing savings would drive up the interest rate and choke off economic activity ( Paul Craig Roberts)
    国库从现有储蓄中借款会迫使利率上升和使经济活动停滞（保罗克雷格罗伯茨）

verb

1. suppress
   1. He choked down his rage

   Synonym:    choke downchoke back

2. become or cause to become obstructed
   1. The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
   2. The water pipe is backed up

   Synonym:    clogclog upback upcongestchokefoul