clampdown

noun

1. 严禁，制止，取缔（非法活动）
   sudden action that is taken in order to stop an illegal activity
   1. a clampdown on drinking and driving
      严禁酒后驾车

1. N-COUNT 取缔;压制;管制;镇压
   A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
   1. ...a clampdown on the employment of illegal immigrants...
      对雇用非法移民的打击
   2. Ironically, the latest clamp-down has just led to renewed international criticism.
      让人哭笑不得的是，最近的制裁结果只是导致新一波国际社会的批评。

1. A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars
   警方打击偷车贼的行动遭遇了一点小挫折：匪徒偷走了一辆警车。
2. Paradoxically, our era of close international integration has prompted a clampdown on immigration.
   矛盾的是，我们所处的这个国际紧密融合时代带来了对移民的压制。
3. Investors are seeking a new benchmark for commodities that excludes prices from US markets in response to a regulatory clampdown in Washington.
   作为对华盛顿加强监管的回应，投资者正在寻找一个将美国市场价格排除在外的大宗商品新基准。
4. China has become a key factor in global coal prices as the country swings from exporter to importer amid surging demand for power and on the back of a clampdown on illegal and unsafe mining in Shanxi Province, the key producing area.
   随着近年中国电力需求飙升，以及主要煤炭生产地区山西省取缔不安全的非法采矿，中国已从煤炭出口国转变为进口国，进而成为影响全球煤价的一个关键因素。
5. The Yeti Roast Duck Office has decided to have a clampdown on building new chain stores.
   雪人烤鸭总店决定不准再建新的连锁店。
6. The clampdown is part of an aggressive push by the Wall Street bank to reduce administration and non-payroll expenses.
   这项限制措施是该华尔街银行积极减少行政及非工资开支努力的一部分。
7. But this clampdown seems to have been mild.
   但此番整肃的力度似乎颇为温和。
8. Certainly not the way G20 leaders fawned over Barack Obama while announcing a welter of measures largely irrelevant to the immediate problem of the global recession, including a clampdown on tax havens, bonuses and big hedge funds.
   当然不是20国集团（g20）领导人讨好奥巴马的方式，同时宣布了一大堆与全球衰退这一最紧迫问题几乎毫不相干的措施，包括打击避税天堂、奖金和大型对冲基金。
9. We saw property counters selling on possible clampdown on deferred payment schemes for property purchases.
   我们看到购买物业延期付款机制抵制了可能的销售下挫。
10. Some NGOs said the move could mark a further political attempt to restrict their activities in Russia, following a clampdown while Mr Putin was president.
    一些NGO表示，普京任总统时也曾对NGO进行压制，而现在此举可能标志着进一步限制它们在俄活动的政治企图。
11. Finally, a clampdown on tax evasion has also to be enforced.
    最后，还必须严格执法，打击逃税行为。
12. An executive with a medium-sized state-owned bank said he saw no evidence of any relaxation in the clampdown.
    某家中等规模国有银行的一名高管称，他看不到任何证据显示收紧措施将会放松。
13. Motorcycle manufacturers face a clampdown on air pollution and climate-warming emissions in the European Union, and the industry says it is ready for pan-European rules.
    在欧盟，因为空气污染和气候暖化排放问题，摩托车生产商面临取缔，而且该行业表示它准备适应泛欧的规则。
14. The forecast bodes well for iron ore and coking coal, the two bulk commodities used for steelmaking, prices of which came under pressure this month because of the energy clampdown.
    这一预测对于铁矿石和炼焦煤而言可谓好消息。由于限电，这两种炼钢用大宗商品的价格本月遇到了压力。
15. The government has decided to have a clampdown on building roads.
    政府决定不准再修筑公路。
16. Police efforts to thwart a feared attack triggered a disruptive, security clampdown across the country.
    警方力图挫败恐怖袭击，在全国掀起一场干扰（机场正常运作）的保安和打击活动。
17. A clampdown on unproven and potentially unsafe stem cell research is being called for by an expert group.
    一个专家小组被召集到一起调查对未证实的、潜在危险的干细胞的限制。
18. A savage clampdown on the US consumer might have thrown the world into recession.
    如果对美国消费者进行野蛮打压，世界恐怕早已陷入衰退。
19. More generally, the global clampdown on tax evasion requires Swiss private banks to reinvent themselves.
    更广泛言之，全球对避税的打压，要求瑞士私人银行进行彻底的自我改造。
20. They have mounted a preemptive clampdown of a severity rarely seen in recent years.
    他们已经采取了先发制人的措施，严厉程度近年罕见。
21. So did parts of the property market, prompting a government clampdown.
    房地产市场的有些部分也一度犹如脱缰的野马，促使政府重拳干预。
22. Germany's call for a clampdown on European tax havens won support on Tuesday from a majority of the European Union's 27 member states, determined to tighten rules on bank secrecy, which they see as encouraging tax evasion.
    德国发出的打击欧洲避税天堂的呼吁周二得到了欧盟（EU）27个成员国中大多数国家的支持，它们决定收紧其视为鼓励逃税行为的银行保密规定。
23. But analysts say the apparent success of the clampdown on lending disguises a worrying new trend that involves banks co-operating with lightly regulated trust companies to keep loans off their books.
    但分析师们表示，遏制放贷的表面成功，掩盖了一种令人担忧的新趋势，即银行与监管宽松的信托公司合作，把贷款放在账目以外。
24. Notwithstanding interest rate rises, cranked up bank reserve requirements and a clampdown on investment, China's economy grew 10.7 per cent last year.
    尽管中国上调了利率、提高了存款准备金率、采取了抑制投资的措施，但去年的经济增长率仍达到10.7%。
25. Near where he stands, the charred remains of a small rare earths pit are witness to the clampdown.
    离他站的地方不远，一个不大的稀土坑中烧焦的残余物见证了这场整改行动。
26. The operation was part of a major clampdown on organised crime ahead of the2014 World Cup and the2016 Olympics.
    这次行动是提前对2014年的世界杯和2016年奥运会所进行的针对有组织犯罪的重要扫荡的一部分。
27. A clampdown on entertainment visas a few years ago forced her to go back to Mindanao, in the south of the Philippines, but she returned to Japan on receiving a marriage proposal from a Japanese computer engineer she had met in Tokyo.
    几年前对娱乐签证的限制，迫使她回到了菲律宾南部的棉兰老岛，但她在接到她在东京遇到的一名日本电脑工程师的求婚后回到了日本。
28. It also comes amid an increasing clampdown on the internet in China over the last year.
    这次事件就发生在去年以来中国日益严格的网络监管进程中。
29. Instead, banks will likely bear the brunt through increased reserve requirements and a prolonged clampdown on lending.
    相反，通过提高储备金率和长期打压放贷，银行可能首当其冲受到冲击。
30. The clampdown on loans made off the books or outside the banking system remains in force.
    对黑市贷款和银行系统外贷款的压制依然存在。

noun

1. sudden restriction on an activity