self-restraint
英 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]
美 [ˌself rɪˈstreɪnt]
n. 自我克制
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- She exercised all her self-restraint and kept quiet.
她好不容易才忍住没说话。
- She exercised all her self-restraint and kept quiet.
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
- an effective temperateness in debate
双语例句
- Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
试着锻炼一下自我克制。 - 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。 - 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。 - Give me chastity and self-restraint, but do not give it yet.
给我贞节和自抑，但不要现在就给。 - Institutionalized Security Cooperation and the Self-restraint of Power
制度化安全合作与权力的自我约束 - 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。 - 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 rely on other people's decency and self-restraint to sustain their psychological dominance.
他们依靠别人的礼貌、别人的自我约束来维持自己的心理优越。 - 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。 - On the one hand, we should raise the ideological and moral quality and ability of self-restraint by strengthening the ideological and moral construction of power;
一方面通过加强思想道德建设，提高权力者的思想道德素质和自我约束能力；