self-restraint

英 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]

美 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]

n.  自我克制

复数：self-restraints　

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牛津词典

noun

• 自我克制
  the ability to stop yourself doing or saying sth that you want to because you know it is better not to
  1. She exercised all her self-restraint and kept quiet.
     她好不容易才忍住没说话。

柯林斯词典

• 自我克制;自我约束
  If you showself-restraint, you do not do something even though you would like to do it, because you think it would be better not to.

英英释义

noun

• exhibiting restraint imposed on the self
  1. an effective temperateness in debate
  Synonym:temperateness

双语例句

• Since China's commercial banks and SOEs lack self-restraint capacity, at present it is hard to achieve the full determination of interest rates by the market.
  加上中国商业银行和国有企业自我约束能力不强，目前，还很难做到利率完全由市场决定。
• Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
  试着锻炼一下自我克制。
• The kind of discipline and self-restraint necessary for an educated mind appears, for him, to be unequally divided among human beings.
  那种受过教育者，所必备的纪律与自制，对他而言似乎是不平等地，区隔了人群。
• Nearly always, good writing is the product of self-restraint, narrow concentration and obsessiveness.
  几乎总是这样，好的文字是自我克制、全神贯注和执著的产物。
• Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
  以谨慎、虚心和聪明的自制力为特点。
• She has been saintly in her self-restraint.
  她一直过着自我节制的圣徒式生活。
• Our military forces are committed to peace and disciplined in self-restraint.
  我们的军事力量完全旨在维护和平，素有自制的训练。
• Give me chastity and self-restraint, but do not give it yet.
  给我贞节和自抑，但不要现在就给。
• Mutual dependence, common destiny, homogeneity, self-restraint is four major variables of European identity.
  相互依存、共同命运、同质性、自我约束是建构欧洲认同的四个主变量。
• He appealed to the nation for self-restraint.
  他向全国人民呼吁要自我克制。