choke point

基本解释

Tolerance design affects functional roles and manufacturing costs of products. It has been become a key technique and choke point of information integration in CAD/CAM.
公差设计影响产品的功能和制造成本，是CAD/CAM信息集成中的关键技术，已经成为CAD/CAM信息集成的瓶颈。
A key choke point, however, is forming in middle distillates – the diesel used topower trucks and generators, and the heating oil that warms homes around the world in winter.
但中质馏分油面临一个关键瓶颈；中质馏分油包括卡车和发电机使用的柴油，以及冬季全球各地使用的取暖油。
On-ramp junction is choke point of expressway, and it has import and realistic significance for building and managing expressway to study its capacity.
入口匝道连接点是城市快速路的瓶颈，研究其通行能力对城市快速路的建设和管理具有重要现实意义。

As the production for Canadian oil sands has increased, Cushing has become a major choke point.
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The choke point ripples across the economy, forcing some companies to abandon just-in-time shipping and stockpile goods in case of delays.
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More than Sudan, Philadelphi - Gaza's international border with Egypt - is the choke point of weapons transfers from Iran to Gaza.
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瓶颈
In the study of Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), knowledge base system is viewed as a choke point that restricts its effectiveness and practicality.
知识库系统是制约智能化教学系统有效、实用的一个瓶颈。