[definition]
[vt] to control or limit something in order to prevent it from having a harmful effect.
= control, limit
[sentence]
1. He is a nice guy, and it is just that he cannot curb his temper sometimes.
2. Many years ago New York City raised parking fees in order to curb rush-hour traffic.
3. To curb smoking in public areas, Beijing rolled out a regulation against it a few years ago. Thanks to lack of enforcement, however, smokers still smoke in public, completely disregarding the rule and people around them.
4. At the same time, they could work harder to curb corruption and human-rights abuses by their armies and police forces.
5. Governments meanwhile are taking direct action to curb content that they deem inappropriate.
6. Mr Legault, a former airline executive, campaigned to curb immigration, even though the province has a labour shortage, and to deny work permits to newcomers who fail tests of “Quebec values” and proficiency in French.
7. It was then that Jacob Zuma began his nine-year reign as president, during which time the thuggish kleptocrat and his cronies ransacked state-owned enterprises (SOEs), plundered local and provincial governments, and ravaged the law-enforcement institutions set up to curb such looting.
[Practice]
1. 特朗普对移民很不友好，一上台就开始限制移民。
参考翻译：Trump is extremely unfriendly towards immigration and started to curb it as soon as he became president.
Utterly unfriendly to immigration, Trump started to curb it as soon as he was elected president.
