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

• You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint.
  我说，和那些没有自制，不能接触放纵恶习的人相比。
• Patience is a kind of conscious self-restraint.
  忍耐是一种有意识的自我克制。
• From the management point of view, university students more emphasis on self-management, self-service, self-restraint.
  从管理方法上看，大学更多的强调学生的自我管理、自我教育、自我服务、自我约束。
• She has been saintly in her self-restraint.
  她一直过着自我节制的圣徒式生活。
• They rely on other people's decency and self-restraint to sustain their psychological dominance.
  他们依靠别人的礼貌、别人的自我约束来维持自己的心理优越。
• The internal education quality views of universities and colleges have great significance for their self-development and self-restraint.
  高校内部教育质量观对高校自我发展、自我约束具有非常重要的意义。
• Showing wise self-restraint in speech and behavior especially in preserving prudent silence.
  在言行上表现出明智的自制力，特别是谨慎的保持沉默。
• Institutionalized Security Cooperation and the Self-restraint of Power
  制度化安全合作与权力的自我约束
• They inure themselves to a lifetime of self-restraint.
  他们使自己习惯于终身的自我克制。
• Fifth, I think I have a stronger ability to exercise self-restraint.
  第五，我觉得我有较强的自我克制能力。