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restraint

/ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/ 名词 C1

中文: 限制、克制

  1. Something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures. (countable) · Make sure all the restraints are tight.
  2. Control or caution; reserve. (uncountable) · Try to exercise restraint when talking to your boss.

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All took their places, or rather the ladies formed a circle, while the gentlemen (more indifferent to the restraints of what Boileau calls the style énergique) commented on the feverish agitation of Andrea, on M.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第969页 · C1
In town, I believe, he chiefly lived, but his studying the law was a mere pretence; and being now free from all restraint, his life was a life of idleness and dissipation.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第233页 · B2
Our importance, our respectability in the world, must be affected by the wild volatility, the assurance and disdain of all restraint which mark Lydia’s character.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第261页 · B2
Between Elizabeth and Charlotte there was a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject; and Elizabeth felt persuaded that no real confidence could ever subsist between them again.
《Pride and Prejudice》,第149页 · B2

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