| 词汇 | refrained |
| 释义 | refrained past simple and past participle ofrefrain refrain verb[ I ] formaluk /rɪˈfreɪn/ us /rɪˈfreɪn/ C2 to avoid doing or stop yourself from doing something: 避免；忍住；节制 We refrained from talking until we knew that it was safe.我们缄默不语，直到确定安全了才开始说话。 The sign on the wall said "Please refrain from smoking."墙上有个牌子，上写“请勿吸烟”。 Synonym desistformal Abstaining and refraining abstain abstain from something abstainer abstemious abstemiously cut desist disengagement finger forbear forbearance give up play hard to getidiom pull pull back step step back stop touch truck Examples of refrainedrefrained In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Neither parasitoid refrained from oviposition in situations where its progeny were very unlikely to develop. Nevertheless, in contrast to the 1920s, the employers refrained from direct attacks on the union, and the framework of collective bargaining was never repudiated. For the sake of brevity, we have refrained from a detailed exposition. In choosing an analysis method we wished to avoid a priori assumptions about the nurses' answers and so refrained from applying a predetermined coding framework. But he refrained from including among these obstacles the caudillos, who were to strike the decisive final blow against these projects. In some villages, one candidacy was so weak that its supporters refrained from provoking any fight. Such women should have refrained from extra-pair mating, sacrificing some genetic benefits they might otherwise have obtained. We have refrained from integrating (7) to keep the fixpoint operator comparable to its predecessors. In view of the large intermodel variability, we refrained from a strictly quantitative synthesis of the modeling results. But even so, he should have refrained from making use of this particular term to avoid possible misunderstanding. Consequently, the previous government's binding policy package was retroactively abolished, and the incoming government refrained from further intervention in incomes policy. If he refrained from rescuing when this cost him nothing, this would indicate that he intended the death of the one to save the five. We refrained from performing a test of delayed density dependence because unfortunately we could not come up with any clear working hypothesis in our system. Due to sparse distribution of index minerals the authors refrained from mapping mineral isograds. Our analysis explicitly refrained from judging the changes under consideration. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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