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

• Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
  试着锻炼一下自我克制。
• He appealed to the nation for self-restraint.
  他向全国人民呼吁要自我克制。
• Since China's commercial banks and SOEs lack self-restraint capacity, at present it is hard to achieve the full determination of interest rates by the market.
  加上中国商业银行和国有企业自我约束能力不强，目前，还很难做到利率完全由市场决定。
• Self-restraint and shame are not what is holding us back from liberation.
  所以，没有自己的约束跟修持的时候，会把我们系缚在生死轮回中无法解脱。
• On the one hand, we should raise the ideological and moral quality and ability of self-restraint by strengthening the ideological and moral construction of power;
  一方面通过加强思想道德建设，提高权力者的思想道德素质和自我约束能力；
• 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。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• Patience is a kind of conscious self-restraint.
  忍耐是一种有意识的自我克制。
• Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
  以谨慎、虚心和聪明的自制力为特点。
• Showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence.
  在言行上表现出明智的自制力，特别是谨慎的保持沉默。