A crackdown is when the police, a school, a company, or a government suddenly starts treating a problem much more strictly than before. They do not just warn people; they hunt the thing down and punish it.

A crackdown is when the police, a school, a company, or a government suddenly starts treating a problem much more strictly than beforecrackdown是指警方、學校、公司或政府突然開始用比以前嚴格得多的方式處理一個問題 They do not just warn people他們不只是警告而已； they hunt the thing down and punish it他們會積極追查並加以懲罰

You nearly always hear what the crackdown is aimed at: a crackdown on drugs, on drunk driving, on tax cheating, on street protests.

You nearly always hear what the crackdown is aimed at你幾乎都會聽到crackdown是針對什麼： a crackdown on drugs, on drunk driving, on tax cheating, on street protestsa crackdown on drugs（掃毒）、on drunk driving（抓酒駕）、on tax cheating（查逃稅）、on street protests（鎮壓街頭抗議）

News writers love the word, so it can sound bigger than the facts. Sometimes a few extra checks at the station get called a crackdown; sometimes it really is a wide, hard campaign with arrests. It is a noun for the action as a whole, not for one punch or one fine.

News writers love the word新聞寫作者很愛用這個字， so it can sound bigger than the facts所以它聽起來可能比實際情況還誇張 Sometimes a few extra checks at the station get called a crackdown有時候警局多做幾次臨檢就被叫做crackdown； sometimes it really is a wide, hard campaign with arrests有時候它真的是大規模、強硬且有逮捕行動的行動 It is a noun for the action as a whole它是指整個行動的名詞， not for one punch or one fine不是指單一一次的出拳或一張罰單

In everyday talk people more often say they are being much stricter now; crackdown belongs more to headlines and serious reports. Though actually, once the word is in the air, people on both sides use it: officials like it because it sounds strong and in control, and critics use it when they want to say the state is coming down too hard.

In everyday talk people more often say they are being much stricter now在日常對話裡，人們比較常說現在管得嚴多了； crackdown belongs more to headlines and serious reportscrackdown比較常出現在標題和正式報導裡 Though actually, once the word is in the air不過其實，一旦這個字被講出來， people on both sides use it雙方都會用它： officials like it because it sounds strong and in control官員喜歡用，因為聽起來強勢又有掌控力， and critics use it when they want to say the state is coming down too hard批評者也會用，來說國家管得太過頭了