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

• 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。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• 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。
• Such self-restraint will not deter the US authorities.
  这种自制可不会阻拦美国政府。
• Nearly always, good writing is the product of self-restraint, narrow concentration and obsessiveness.
  几乎总是这样，好的文字是自我克制、全神贯注和执著的产物。
• 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。
• Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
  试着锻炼一下自我克制。
• 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
• 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。