英语词汇“restraint”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	restraint
释义	re·straint \rə̇ˈstrānt, rēˈs-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French restrainte, from feminine of restraint, past participle of restraindre to restrain — more at restrain 1. a. : an act of restraining, hindering, checking, or holding back from some activity or expression < to act upon his own choice and judgment free from restraints … imposed by the arbitrary will of other human beings — John Dewey > b. : a means, force, or agency that restrains, checks free activity, or otherwise controls < if a woman has no inclination to do what is wrong, being secured from it is no restraint to her — James Boswell > < the restraints of an academic habit — Irwin Edman > c. : the condition of being restrained, checked, or controlled : deprivation of liberty : confinement < absolute liberty is absence of restraint — Henry Adams > < facilities for the accommodation and restraint of so large a number of frenzied patients — V.G.Heiser > 2. : a check on free commercial or business activity : embargo < production being hindered by governmental restraints > 3. : a check or control over free, easy, or unruly expression : constraint : reserved expression avoiding extravagance or excess : stiffness and lack of easy naturalness and liveliness < a restraint which kept them mutually silent on the subject — Jane Austen > < so much restraint of feeling, so much impersonality, so much coldness — Manny Farber > < designed with … restraint without overemphasis of decoration — American Guide Series: Delaware > Synonyms: see force
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