act as a brake on something

SLOWto make something develop more slowly, be more difficult to do, or happen less 对某事物起抑制作用，遏制某事物

Rises in interest rates act as a brake on expenditure.

加息对消费起抑制作用。

Examples from the Corpus

act 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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单词	act as a brake on something
释义	act as a brake on something act as a brake on something SLOWto make something develop more slowly, be more difficult to do, or happen less 对某事物起抑制作用，遏制某事物 Rises in interest rates act as a brake on expenditure. 加息对消费起抑制作用。 Examples from the Corpus act 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. → act as a brake on something at brake1(1)
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