| 词汇 | hold-back |
| 释义 | hold backphrasal verb with holdverbuk /həʊld/ us /hoʊld/held | held to not do something, often because of fear or because you do not want to make a bad situation worse: （常指因恐惧或不愿让事情变得更糟而）退缩，不做 He held back, terrified of going into the dark room.他退缩了，不敢进入黑暗的房间。 Avoiding action abrogate abrogation avoid avoid something like the plagueidiom avoidance elude end-run eschew evader evasion fiddle insure shirk short circuit shrink from something shy away from something sit on your arseidiom steer welch Welsh hold someone/something backphrasal verb with holdverbuk /həʊld/ us /hoʊld/held | held (STOP DEVELOPMENT)C2 to stop someone or something developing or doing as well as they should: 阻碍…的发展 She felt that having children would hold her back.她觉得生孩子会阻碍她事业的发展。 Delaying and wasting time ado busywork buy timeidiom carry something over dally gridlock inefficiency inefficiently kept kick kick something into the long grassidiom push retard retardation set someone back (something) shelve sit sit on something spin stall (STOP MOVEMENT)C1 If you hold someone or something back, you stop him, her, or it from coming or moving forward: 阻挡，阻止 Sandbags will hold the flood waters back for a while.沙袋能够将洪水挡住一段时间。 Preventing and impeding anti-drug anti-jamming avoid avoidable avoidably fireproof flameproof frustration guard against something hamper hang have someone/something hanging round your neckidiom preclusion preclusive prejudice prevent preventable scuttle smother suffocate hold something backphrasal verb with holdverbuk /həʊld/ us /hoʊld/held | held C1 to keep information secret from someone deliberately隐瞒，不透露（情况） Secrecy and privacy anonymity anonymization anonymize anonymous anonymously cryptography data protection dead men tell no talesidiom dissimulate dissimulation on the quietidiom privacy privacy settings private privately under wrapsidiom undisclosed unrevealed unsourced unstated C2 to stop yourself showing an emotion: 不表露（情绪） He spoke slowly, to hold back his growing anger.他说得很慢，努力不显露自己的愤怒。 Controlling emotions anger management blackmail bottle bottle something up breaking point choke compose cork dysregulated dysregulation emotional blackmailidiom fight back frustrated put on a brave faceidiom repress repressed repression self-possessed self-possessedly temperate hold back (something) | American Dictionaryhold back (something)phrasal verb with holdverbus/hoʊld/past tense and past participleheldus/held/ to stop something from happening or advancing, or to keep someone from doing something: She held back from interfering in their arguments. Sandbags will hold back the flood waters for a while. He admitted that something had gone wrong, but he held back the details (= stopped himself from telling the complete truth). hold back | Business Englishhold backphrasal verb with holdverbuk /həʊld/usheld | held [ I ] to not speak or state an opinion: I held back during the meeting because I knew that my opinions were too controversial. hold sb/sth backphrasal verb with holdverbuk /həʊld/usheld | held to prevent someone or something from changing, moving, or developing: She hadn't got the promotion she wanted, and she accused her boss of holding her back. What's holding back that company is a failure to consider the Internet as a market rather than as competition. |
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