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

• Since China's commercial banks and SOEs lack self-restraint capacity, at present it is hard to achieve the full determination of interest rates by the market.
  加上中国商业银行和国有企业自我约束能力不强，目前，还很难做到利率完全由市场决定。
• They inure themselves to a lifetime of self-restraint.
  他们使自己习惯于终身的自我克制。
• Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
  以谨慎、虚心和聪明的自制力为特点。
• 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。
• Because my self-restraint ability is not good, I like with everybody studying together!
  因为我自制能力不好，我喜欢和大家一起学！
• Patience is a kind of conscious self-restraint.
  忍耐是一种有意识的自我克制。
• Self-restraint and shame are not what is holding us back from liberation.
  所以，没有自己的约束跟修持的时候，会把我们系缚在生死轮回中无法解脱。
• Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
  没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。
• She has been saintly in her self-restraint.
  她一直过着自我节制的圣徒式生活。