- curb (on something) something that controls and puts limits on something起控制（或限制）作用的事物
- curbs on government spending對政府開支的限制措施
- Many companies have imposed curbs on smoking in the workplace.許多公司已經限制在工作場所吸煙。
- We are in favour of strict curbs on government spending.我們贊成對政府開支采取嚴格限制措施。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + curbprepositionSee full entry - (North American English)
(British English kerb)
the edge of the raised path at the side of a road, usually made of long pieces of stone（由條石砌成的）路緣，道牙，馬路牙子- The bus mounted the curb (= went onto the sidewalk) and hit a tree.那輛公交車開上路緣撞到了一棵樹上。
Topics Transport by car or lorryc2 Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting a strap fastened to the bit): from Old French courber ‘bend, bow’, from Latin curvare ‘to bend’, from curvus ‘bent’.
