Restraint
[rɪ'streɪnt] or [rɪ'strent]
解释:
(noun.) the act of controlling by restraining someone or something; 'the unlawful restraint of trade'.
(noun.) a device that retards something's motion; 'the car did not have proper restraints fitted'.
(noun.) discipline in personal and social activities; 'he was a model of polite restraint'; 'she never lost control of herself'.
(noun.) a rule or condition that limits freedom; 'legal restraints'; 'restraints imposed on imports'.
简录入--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.
(n.) The state of being restrained.
(n.) That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the like; limitation; restriction.
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同义词及近义词:
n. Check, curb, repression, bridle, suppression, constraint, CRAMP, prohibition, hold-back.[2]. Hinderance, prevention.[3]. Limitation, restriction, imprisonment, confinement.
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同义词及反义词:
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录入:内德
例句:
- There was an absence of all lady-like restraint in her language and manner most painful to see. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- So we were left to take leave of one another without any restraint. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- No, my love; I should be a restraint upon you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Mrs. Hale cried without restraint. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Caution, thought, restraint, prudence, are all swept away by the torrent. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It was not the less present in our minds--it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- How then would he use his power when her expression of contempt had dispelled his one motive for restraint? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Nobody there present seemed to impose on him a sensation of unpleasant restraint. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Yet, he must leave them at the end of a week, in spite of their wishes and his own, and without any restraint on his time. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- I gave her mother a form of letter to write to Miss Halcombe, exonerating me from any bad motive in putting her under restraint. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She was less and less able to endure the restraint which her father imposed. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- She meant to warn him that Laurie would not bear much restraint, and hoped he would be more forebearing with the lad. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Not it: she will be a restraint. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Sir Percival neither noticed the restraint in her reception of him, nor her sudden withdrawal from our society. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- How hurtful soever in themselves, these, or some other restraints upon importation, became necessary in consequence of that regulation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it everywhere labours under. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It's his only compensation for the outward restraints he puts upon himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- You will find, whenever the subject becomes freed from its present restraints, that it did not take her wholly by surprize. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Its two great engines for enriching the country, therefore, were restraints upon importation, and encouragement to exportation. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- There has been a slipping off of ancient restraints; a real _de-civilization_ of men's minds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Inquiry freed from prejudice and artificial restraints of church and state had revealed that the world is a scene of law. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- With every development of speech it became possible to intensify and develop the tradition of tabus and restraints and ceremonies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Those different restraints consisted sometimes in high duties, and sometimes in absolute prohibitions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The restraints upon importation were of two kinds. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- English commercial jealousy put heavy restraints upon Irish trade, and the development of a wool industry was destroyed in the south and west. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But this critic grasped only one aspect of the restraints upon mental activity. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Part I--Of the Unreasonableness of those Restraints, even upon the Principles of the Commercial System. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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