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

• 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。
• Others point to the recent emphasis in US schools on cultivating student self-esteem& at the expense of self-restraint.
  还有评论家将矛头指向近来美国学校的教育，认为学校过分强调培养学生的自尊&而这是以牺牲自我约束力为代价的。
• 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。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• Because my self-restraint ability is not good, I like with everybody studying together!
  因为我自制能力不好，我喜欢和大家一起学！
• 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。
• They inure themselves to a lifetime of self-restraint.
  他们使自己习惯于终身的自我克制。
• He appealed to the nation for self-restraint.
  他向全国人民呼吁要自我克制。
• 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。