| 单词 | act as a brake on something |
| 释义 | act as a brake on something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishact as a brake on somethingact as a brake on somethingSLOWto make something develop more slowly, be more difficult to do, or happen lessRises in interest rates act as a brake on expenditure. → brakeExamples from the Corpusact as a brake on something• To what extent do girls act as brakes on, or motivators of, delinquent behaviour in masculine adolescent gang-culture, for example?• Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.• Unfortunately, widespread foot-dragging continues to act as a brake on debt relief.• In April 1992 they persuaded Boris Yeltsin to put three industrialists into the government to act as a brake on the free-marketeers. |
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