Refrained

例句/造句/用法:

• While I thought you could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained from saying it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• You would have it that such was the case, and I refrained from contradiction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• I refrained from alarming the house, and telling everybody what had happened--as I ought to have done. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
• 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. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
• I refrained from pressing the question. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Dreadful imaginings occurred to Eustacia, but she carefully refrained from uttering them to her husband. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• He was very solemn and refrained from talking. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.

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