refrains

英 [rɪˈfreɪnz]

美 [rɪˈfreɪnz]

v.  克制; 节制; 避免
refrain的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 克制;忍住
  If yourefrain fromdoing something, you deliberately do not do it.
  1. Mrs Hardie refrained from making any comment...
     哈迪夫人忍住不作任何评论。
  2. He appealed to all factions to refrain from violence.
     他呼吁所有派系避免使用暴力。
• N-COUNT （歌曲的）叠句，副歌部分
  Arefrainis a short, simple part of a song, which is repeated many times.
  1. ...a refrain from an old song.
     一首老歌的副歌部分
• N-COUNT 反复说的话;老调
  Arefrainis a comment or saying that people often repeat.
  1. Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a life.
     罗莎总是重复的一句话就是她没有像样的生活。

双语例句

• In his History of the Peloponnesian War, to be sure, he refrains from offering a picture of the best regime.
  在其《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》中，可以肯定，修昔底德克制不要提供最佳政制的图景。
• In the third part, we will put our focus on repetitions and refrains, which are of great importance for the readers to experience the protagonist's thoughts and feelings and to understand the whole theme of the poem.
  第三部分分析诗中的重复句及叠句，这对读者深入体察主人公思想情感和了解全诗的意念结构乃至把握全诗的主题思想均起着十分重要的作用。
• She refrains from telling you the whole story.
  她避免从有效的你原委。
• Though she is curious about his past, she refrains from asking too many questions.
  尽管她对他的过去很好奇，但她尽量避免问他过多的问题。
• One of the refrains I have heard often in recent weeks is that the new president cannot expect Europe to send more troops to Afghanistan until there is a credible political strategy.
  最近几周我经常听到的一句话是，在新总统拿出有效的政治战略之前，他不要指望欧洲会向阿富汗增派军队。
• As for eco-environment construction of Loess Plateau, the key point is to return farmland to forest and grassland. Since it is located at a semi-arid and arid climate region, water is main factor that refrains the vegetation recovery and eco-reconstruction.
  黄土高原生态环境的建设，退耕还林还草是切入点，由于地处于干旱半干旱区，水分则是制约该区植被恢复和生态重建的主要限制因子。
• It refrains from taking sides publicly by distinguishing facts from opinions.
  同时，它禁止在报道中公开地采取立场，而将客观事实和主观意见区别开来。
• The improvement on wettability is due to the addition of Cu which decreases the activity of Zn and refrains the oxidation of Zn atoms at the surface of liquid solder. Better wetting behavior is gotten because of the lower surface tension of liquid solder.
  这是由于Cu的加入降低了Zn的活性，减少了Zn在钎料表面氧化，降低了液态钎料表面张力，使得钎料能获得较好的润湿性。
• Furthermore, it must not be said that the law may be philanthropic if, in the process, it refrains from oppressing persons and plundering them of their property; this would be a contradiction.
  此外，如果它没有压迫人民、有掠夺他们的财产，也不能说法律是慈善的；这是一个矛盾。
• Protection of Life Album of Painting, the religious ecology ethics thought cartoon collection is a cartoon series created together by the modern Buddhist priests and laymen for the purpose of propagating refrains from killing, protecting lives and so on.
  《护生画集》是近代僧俗两界共同创作的一部旨在弘扬戒杀、护生等宗教生态伦理思想的漫画丛书。