crack down

英 [kræk daʊn]

美 [kræk daʊn]

严厉打击; 镇压

柯林斯词典

verb

repress or suppress (something regarded as undesirable)
1. The police clamped down on illegal drugs
Synonym:clamp down

There has been a lot of drinking. We are cracking down now. Anyone who gets caught is fired.
最近有很多人喝酒。我们现在要开始严惩。抓住一个解雇一个。
In order to crack down drunken driving, the government should introduce a more severe law.
为了打击酒后驾驶，政府应该出台更严厉的法律。
Crack down on hoarding and disturb the market, safeguarding market order.
打击囤积居奇、扰乱市场的行为，维护市场秩序。
The first is over China's failure to crack down on pirated goods like movies and books.
第一项是中国抵制盗版电影和书籍的失败。
For instance, why must we crack down on economic crime?
比如为什么要提打击经济犯罪活动？
Officers will crack down on lunatic motorists who speed or drive too close to the car in front
警察将会严厉打击超速或是紧贴前车行驶的疯狂司机。
Alternatively, will they crack down so hard on inflation that they force their economies into recession?
另一方面，他们会对通货膨胀会采取严厉的措施以致使经济进入衰退吗？
Remediation nausea irrigation, irrigation crack down on bad information and malicious ads;
整治恶心灌水，严厉打击恶意灌水的不良信息和广告；
But, they argue, this is not a reason to crack down on business schools.
但他们认为这不是惩治商学院的理由。
First, it's difficult to crack down on violators.
第一，对违反规范者难以发挥制裁的效果。