slam on the brakes的意思|示意

Very few executives have experience in strategic recalibration and therefore their natural inclination is to slam on the brakes and make across-the-board cuts, killing the good and the bad.

只有极少数的高阶经理人有过重新校准策略的经验，而绝大多数经理人的下意识举动是紧急煞车、全面裁减、好坏通杀。

The risk is that if inflation continues to rise, policymakers will eventually have to slam on the monetary brakes.

而这种做法也有风险：如果通胀率持续攀升，那么决策层最终只能收紧货币阀门。