| 单词 | restrain |
| 释义 | re·strain transitive verb 1. a. < restraining her charges … from overt acts of violence — C.H.Grandgent > b. < restraining state banks which were inclined to do unsound business — Dict. of American Biography > 2. a. < restraining lax management > b. < could hardly restrain her astonishment from being visible — Jane Austen > 3. obsolete 4. a. b. 5. obsolete intransitive verb 1. archaic 2. Synonyms: < Delaware, in commissioning its delegates, restrained them from assenting to any change in the “rule of suffrage” — E.K.Alden > < one wants to produce in the child the same respect for the garden that restrains the grown-ups from picking wantonly — Bertrand Russell > restrain may also be used with any moderating action, any action that prevents extremes < a law of 17 B.C. gave a legal position to slaves informally manumitted … but drastically restrained their power to acquire and bequeath property — John Buchan > check indicates a restraining of a course, activity, impetus, or effect; its suggestions may rest on uses of the word in horsemanship, chess, or military affairs < if you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits … she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment — Jane Austen > < the ambition of churchmen to shine in worldly contests is disciplined and checked by the broader interests of the church — Henry Adams > curb, bridle, and snaffle likewise carry suggestions from horsemanship, curb indicating drastic and quick checking, bridle indicating a steady, continued guiding, controlling, holding from excess, and snaffle indicating a light curbing < control of money, bills, and the right of electing the councillors curbed somewhat the Governor's immense power — American Guide Series: Massachusetts > < endowed … with zest, with abundance, with romping blood. She had never been bridled in mind or body — Francis Hackett > < whose potential violence of feeling is bridled by good form — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > inhibit, largely psychological or scientific in its suggestions, is likely to bring into consideration repressive or curbing effects of custom, morality, precept, or conscience < the inherent immorality of the acts has become as strong an inhibiting factor as the fear of punishment — T.L.Karsten & J.H.Mathias > < a more and more courageous, a less and less inhibited medium of expression — F.B.Millett > |
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