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

• 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。
• Self-restraint and shame are not what is holding us back from liberation.
  所以，没有自己的约束跟修持的时候，会把我们系缚在生死轮回中无法解脱。
• Others point to the recent emphasis in US schools on cultivating student self-esteem& at the expense of self-restraint.
  还有评论家将矛头指向近来美国学校的教育，认为学校过分强调培养学生的自尊&而这是以牺牲自我约束力为代价的。
• History has hardly been dominated by the benign spirits of co-operation, foresight and self-restraint.
  历史很少受到合作、远见和自我克制等良好精神的主导。
• Such self-restraint will not deter the US authorities.
  这种自制可不会阻拦美国政府。
• She has been saintly in her self-restraint.
  她一直过着自我节制的圣徒式生活。
• 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。
• He appealed to the nation for self-restraint.
  他向全国人民呼吁要自我克制。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
  以谨慎、虚心和聪明的自制力为特点。