self-restraint
英 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]
美 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]
n. 自我克制
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- She exercised all her self-restraint and kept quiet.
她好不容易才忍住没说话。
- She exercised all her self-restraint and kept quiet.
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
- an effective temperateness in debate
双语例句
- They inure themselves to a lifetime of self-restraint.
他们使自己习惯于终身的自我克制。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。 - 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。 - 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。 - He appealed to the nation for self-restraint.
他向全国人民呼吁要自我克制。 - 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。