Curb

词性:v. n.
音标: [kɜːrb]
释义:约束,抑制,控制,规范;路缘(侧石,马路牙子)

The hard thing about learning how to parallel park is trying to get the car close enough to the curb without hitting it. A curb is the edge of the sidewalk beside the road.

When you’re using the word curb as a noun, it’s the raised edging beside a street. When curb is a verb, it means to restrain or hold back, like when you curb your impulse to laugh while watching a badly acted play. Curb comes from the Latin word for “curve,” curvus, which describes the shape of a restraining strap on a horse’s head — in the fifteenth century, this band was called a curb.


Mount the curb.


Don’t hit the curb


Watch the curb. Watch the curb.


Kick sb. or sth. to the curb


Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm.