restrain的经典引文是:Grandfather had to be restrained from lifting the bags.出自:E. L. Doctorow。restrain的意思是vt.抑制;阻止;束缚;剥夺。restrain【近义词】arrest。
一、详尽释义点此查看restrain的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.制止;阻止
If yourestrain someone, you stop them from doing what they intended or wanted to do, usually by using your physical strength.
e.g. Wally gripped my arm, partly torestrain me and partly to reassure me...
沃利抓住我的手臂,一是想制止我,二是想稳住我。
e.g. One onlooker had to be restrained by police.
一个旁观者遭到了警察的制止。
2.克制(情绪);抑制(自己)
If yourestrain an emotion or yourestrain yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.
e.g. She was unable torestrain her desperate anger...
她无法控制自己极度的愤怒。
e.g. Unable torestrain herself, she rose and went to the phone...
她没能克制住自己,起身走向电话。
3.抑制;限制;控制
Torestrain something that is growing or increasing means to prevent it from getting too large.
e.g. The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try torestrain inflation...
这个为期500天的激进计划明确阐明将如何控制通货膨胀。
e.g. In the 1970s, the government tried torestrain corruption.
在20世纪70年代,政府曾经试图打击腐败。
四、例句
He couldn't restrain his curiosity.
他抑制不住自己的好奇心。
She tried to restrain her sobs.
她设法抑制住自己的悲泣。
Shame may restrain what the law does not prohibit.
羞耻或许能阻止法律所不能禁止之事。
We must not restrain children of their liberty.
我们绝对不要限制孩子们的自由。
五、常见句型
六、常用短语
I had to restrain myself from telling him what I thought of him.
我不得不克制自己,不告诉他我对他的想法。
The man lost his temper and had to be restrained from violence by neighbors who held his arms.
那人火气上来了,邻居们不得不拉住他的胳膊不让他动武。
七、词源解说
restrain的相关近义词
arrest、contain、limit、prevent、withhold
restrain的相关反义词
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