Refrained

例句:

• While I thought you could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained from saying it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You would have it that such was the case, and I refrained from contradiction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I refrained from alarming the house, and telling everybody what had happened--as I ought to have done. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Dorothea refrained from saying what was in her mind--how well she knew that there might be invisible barriers to speech between husband and wife. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But he did not hint to me that when I had been better looking he had had this same proceeding in his thoughts and had refrained from it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I refrained from pressing the question. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Dreadful imaginings occurred to Eustacia, but she carefully refrained from uttering them to her husband. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He was very solemn and refrained from talking. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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