Curb

(noun.) an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter).

(noun.) a horse's bit with an attached chain or strap to check the horse.

(verb.) keep to the curb; 'curb your dogs'.

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• We met him at the door and walked out under the umbrella down the wet walk to the carriage at the curb. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Jessie, curb that tongue of yours, and repress your forwardness! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I freely forgive you, and I hope you'll curb your passions in future. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the bell. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I paused, even awed by the agitation he evinced; Yes, he said at length, rising and biting his lip, as he strove to curb his passion; Such am I! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Led by a touch, and ruled by a word, under usual circumstances, no yoke could now be borne--no curb obeyed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Through the deep throng it could pass but slowly; the spirited horses fretted in their curbed ardour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Yet not to excite fresh agitation in her, per non turbar quel bel viso sereno, I curbed my delight. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Am I always to be curbed and kept down? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But he curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Forward was the device stamped upon his soul; but poverty curbed him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It cannot curb her; and she must be curbed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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