self-restraint

英 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]

美 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]

n.  自我克制

复数：self-restraints　

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牛津词典

noun

• 自我克制
  the ability to stop yourself doing or saying sth that you want to because you know it is better not to
  1. She exercised all her self-restraint and kept quiet.
     她好不容易才忍住没说话。

柯林斯词典

• 自我克制;自我约束
  If you showself-restraint, you do not do something even though you would like to do it, because you think it would be better not to.

英英释义

noun

• exhibiting restraint imposed on the self
  1. an effective temperateness in debate
  Synonym:temperateness

双语例句

• History has hardly been dominated by the benign spirits of co-operation, foresight and self-restraint.
  历史很少受到合作、远见和自我克制等良好精神的主导。
• Nearly always, good writing is the product of self-restraint, narrow concentration and obsessiveness.
  几乎总是这样，好的文字是自我克制、全神贯注和执著的产物。
• Such self-restraint will not deter the US authorities.
  这种自制可不会阻拦美国政府。
• Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
  以谨慎、虚心和聪明的自制力为特点。
• Strengthens the self-restraint, the restrain mutually and the society supervises.
  加强自律、互律和社会监督机制的建设。
• You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint.
  我说，和那些没有自制，不能接触放纵恶习的人相比。
• Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
  试着锻炼一下自我克制。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• She has been saintly in her self-restraint.
  她一直过着自我节制的圣徒式生活。
• The person that envy should establish correct belief, envying is the dilettante expression that does not have self-restraint.
  妒忌者应树立正确信念，妒忌是没有涵养的浅薄的表现。