每日单词：crackdown

crackdown  /ˈkrækdaʊn/

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 基本释义 

A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.

n. 打击，镇压

 外刊例句 

This week China promised a tax-evasion crackdown on social-media influencers, who are paid by brands to promote products online to armies of followers. One of the big stars, Viya, a 30-something fashionista known as the live-streaming queen, has already been fined $210m for not declaring her income.

本周，中国承诺将严厉打击逃税的社交媒体网红，这些网红们在线向广大粉丝们推广产品，品牌商们向其支付费用。其中之一的顶流薇娅是一名30多岁的时尚达人，素以直播带货女王著称，因其瞒报收入而被罚款2.1亿美元。

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 追根溯源 

单词crackdown是由单词crack和down两个词合并而来， 表示“打击，镇压”，常用来表示对违法的人或者行为进行的“制裁”。比如：

the government began a crackdown on piracy

政府开始大力打击盗版活动

如果将crack和down分开，就成了一个常见的动词短语crack down，表示“大力整顿，严格管制”。在crack down后面加人或物时，也要加介词on，例如：

to crack down on somebody or something 

大力整顿或者打击某事

 真题例句 

Some environmentalists, however, were disappointed. They had pushed the agency to designate the bird as 'endangered,' a status that gives federal officials greater regulatory power to crack down on threats.

然而，一些环保人士对此感到失望。他们敦促该机构将这种鸟列为“濒危”，这一地位赋予联邦官员更大的监管权力，以打击威胁。  

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