restrain是什么意思_restrain怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement;"This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"
"About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"
"The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"
"The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"

hold back

to compel or deter by or as if by threats

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中英词源

restrain 限制，约束

re-,向后，往回，-strain,拉，词源同 constrain,constrict.即拉回，引申词义限制，约束。

restrain: restrain: see strain
restrain (v.): mid-14c., from stem of Old French restreindre "press, push together; curb, bridle; bandage" (12c.), from Latin restringere "draw back tightly, confine, check" (see restriction). Related: Restrained; restraining.
That which we restrain we keep within limits; that which we restrict we keep within certain definite limits; that which we repress we try to put out of existence. [Century Dictionary, 1902]

词态变化

第三人称单数 restrains;
过去式 restrained;
过去分词 restrained;
现在分词 restraining;

权威造句

1. Unable to restrain herself, she rose and went to the phone.: 她没能克制住自己，起身走向电话。

2. In the 1970s, the government tried to restrain corruption.: 在20世纪70年代，政府曾经试图打击腐败。

3. If you can"t restrain your dog you must lock it up.: 如果你无法管住你的狗,就必须把它关起来.

4. She shouldn"t restrain her anger at this insensible attitude of theirs.: 对他们这种无动于衷的态度,她抑制不住心头的怒火.

5. They couldn"t restrain their excitement.: 他们无法抑制自己的激动.

近反义词

arrest

contain

limit

prevent

withhold

相似短语

restrain sb from ... 限制某人做…,不让某人做…

be held in restrain 被拘留

restrain oneself 克制自己,克己

restrain from v.制止,抑制阻止...去...

Restrain oneself and restore the rites 克己复礼

restrain sb of his liberty 限制某人的自由

maintain railways 养路

brain drain n.智囊流失,人才外流

detail by detail 逐一地

against the grain 反方向；违背意愿，使反感，使不快

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