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

• Fifth, I think I have a stronger ability to exercise self-restraint.
  第五，我觉得我有较强的自我克制能力。
• Such self-restraint will not deter the US authorities.
  这种自制可不会阻拦美国政府。
• Objective To discuss the self-restraint water pocket in the nasal sinuses endoscope postoperative and the effect of stanching bleeding.
  目的探讨自制水囊在内镜鼻窦手术后窦腔的填塞止血效果。
• 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。
• 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。
• Our military forces are committed to peace and disciplined in self-restraint.
  我们的军事力量完全旨在维护和平，素有自制的训练。
• She has been saintly in her self-restraint.
  她一直过着自我节制的圣徒式生活。
• 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。
• Give me chastity and self-restraint, but do not give it yet.
  给我贞节和自抑，但不要现在就给。
• Mutual dependence, common destiny, homogeneity, self-restraint is four major variables of European identity.
  相互依存、共同命运、同质性、自我约束是建构欧洲认同的四个主变量。