Refrain
[rɪ'freɪn] or [rɪ'fren]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers.
(verb.) resist doing something; 'He refrained from hitting him back'; 'she could not forbear weeping'.
手打:胡里奥--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
(v. t.) To abstain from
(v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.
(v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.
埃维塔校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Restrain, withhold, keep back.
v. n. Abstain, forbear, hold one's self back, deny one's self, stay one's hand, keep one's self from indulgence.
n. Burden (of a song).
校對:史蒂文
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Forbear, hold, abstain, keep, restrain, withhold, desist_from
ANT:Indulge, venture, continue, persist
克劳迪娅手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to curb: to restrain.—v.i. to keep from action: to forbear.—ns. Refrain′er; Refrain′ment.
n. a burden or chorus recurring at the end of each division of a poem: the musical form to which the burden of a song is set: an after-taste or other sense impression.
手打:苏珊
例句/造句/用法:
- Fanny, not able to refrain entirely from observing them, had seen enough to be tolerably satisfied. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Fanny acknowledged her wishes and doubts on this point: she did not know how either to wear the cross, or to refrain from wearing it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- As I did the other day, said Elizabeth with a conscious smile: very true, it will be wise in me to refrain from _that_. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- They had the wisdom to refrain from any overt meddling with public ideas. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Who that is not a miserable caitiff will refrain from smiling at the praises of justice? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But if they refrain therefrom, clothe them and feed them suitably. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- During her confinement, many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- 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.
- Under favour, sir, replied the yeoman, I have another reason for refraining to shoot, besides the fearing discomfiture and disgrace. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I supposed he regarded my silence as eccentricbut he was indulgent in refraining from censure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my restlessness. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
校對:佩里