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。
• It erodes self-awareness and self-restraint, and fosters self-indulgence.
  它降低了自知之明，消磨了自制力，让人变得放纵。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• Strengthens the self-restraint, the restrain mutually and the society supervises.
  加强自律、互律和社会监督机制的建设。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
  试着锻炼一下自我克制。
• Such self-restraint will not deter the US authorities.
  这种自制可不会阻拦美国政府。
• 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。