Can we put the brakes on the sarcasm?

讽刺挖苦这件事上你能踩下刹车吗？

Not even close. My uncle must put the brakes on my travelling plans.

差远了。我叔叔对我的旅行计划加以限制了。

You crossed the line. Put the brakes on it or I will.

你越界了，悬崖勒马吧，不然我就帮你勒。

Paradoxically, soaring house prices in the area might be another brake on change.

相反的是，该地区飞涨的房价可能是改变的另一个阻碍。

Not even close. My uncle must put the brakes on my travelling plans.

差远了。我叔叔对我的旅行计划加以限制了。

Also today, China urged both sides to " hit the brakes" on verbal threats.

与此同时，中国今天呼吁双方停止口水战。

So, Neil, would you like to hear some other people putting their brakes on something?

尼尔，你想听听其他人怎么控制吗？

That's as long as they're not trying to put the brakes on their spending.

如果他们不想省点钱的话。

James Allison studied a known protein that functions as a brake on the immune system.

詹姆斯·艾利森研究了一种作为免疫系统“刹车”的已知蛋白质。

But becoming a mother to two children put a brake on her career.

但成为两个孩子的母亲阻碍了她的职业生涯。

Neil, if you don't mind me saying – you need to put the brakes on your spending.

尼尔，如果你不介意我这么说的话，你需要“put the brakes on”你的开支。

We've put the brakes on our plans to expand the business – there's not enough demand anymore.

我们已经停止了扩大业务的计划——需求已经不足了。

And in 2002, parcels of recently-burned land put the brakes on wildfires racing across Arizona's pine forests.

2002 年，几块人为控制燃烧过的林地成功防止了森林大火蔓入亚利桑那州的松林。

Faulty by the way, means something that isn't working properly – like the faulty brakes on my bike.

异常是指无法正常工作，就像我自行车的刹车异常。

The company's putting the brakes on recruitment because of the economic downturn.

由于经济不景气，该公司正在停止招聘。

This means they act like brakes on coagulation, limiting clot formation and preventing clots from growing too big.

它们在凝血过程中起到刹车的作用，限制血块的形成，并防止血块生成得太大。

Observers say it put the brakes on an economic decline, but it didn't cause a major economic boom.

观察员称，虽然这些手段遏制了经济的下滑，但并没有带来很大的经济繁荣。

Let's put the brakes on our holiday plans – we haven't got enough money at the moment.

让我们停止度假计划吧，我们现在的钱不够了。

And Neil, I think you're buying too many bikes, so you need to put the brakes on your spending.

还有，尼尔，我觉得你买了太多自行车，所以你需要控制你的支出。

And the fund warns that market power could yet put a brake on innovation, should incumbent firms get too cosy.

并且IMF警告称市场支配力会削弱创新，在位企业是否应该太过安逸。