| 词汇 | restrain |
| 释义 | restrain verb[ T ] uk /rɪˈstreɪn/ us /rɪˈstreɪn/ C1 to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from doing something, or to limit the growth or force of something: 阻止，制止；遏制 When he started fighting, it took four police officers to restrain him.他出手打人，4个警察才把他制服。 She was so angry that she could hardly restrain herself.她气得几乎都控制不住自己。 You should try to restrain your ambitions and be more realistic.你应该尽量控制自己的野心，更现实一些。 Growth in car ownership could be restrained by increasing taxes.或许可以通过提高税费来限制汽车保有量的增长。 Limiting and restricting anti-libertarian armlock boundary box someone out box someone/something in crippling cripplingly crowd curb curtail keep (herself) to herselfidiom keep something down limit limitation limitative suffocatingly tempered tie someone down tie someone up uncrippled restrain | American Dictionaryrestrain verb[ T ] us/rɪˈstreɪn/ to control the actions or behavior of someone by force, esp. in order to stop that person from doing something: Seamons got into a shouting match and had to be restrained by his teammates. I could hardly restrain my laughter. To restrain is also to limit the growth or force of something: Politicians are reluctant to restrain spending. restrain | Business Englishrestrain verb[ T ] uk /rɪˈstreɪn/us to limit the growth or force of something: The economy had rebounded a bit but was still being restrained by high oil prices. Higher interest rates appear to be restraining consumer spending. to control someone's actions or behaviour, especially by stopping them from doing something: Economists said consumers are still showing few signs of being restrained by interest rate rises. Examples of restrainrestrain This conservatism on the part of nuclear states may have also led them to restrain their minor allies. Often, one's self-image becomes restricted and restrained by one's professional image. The thermal noise can be reduced or damped by exerting a restraining force on the particle. It would be foolhardy to suggest that affordable registration and titling will by itself restrain predatory state functionaries from encroaching on farmer rights. The king's barons together attempted to restrain him from innovatory acts of misgovernment. It seems certain that the sheriffs and their officials were in some sense both the culprits and the king's officials ordered to restrain the culprits. And in the 1990s, they wanted simultaneously to restrain medical costs and expand health insurance coverage. This increasing marginal benefit cushions the cost of restraining carbon use and contributes to a gentler bend in the cost curve. Animals were restrained with the aid of a neck yoke. A distraught old woman restrains the old warrior, while two younger men attempt to calm his attackers. In each of these subareas, there are immensely challenging physical laws that constrict and restrain what engineers can achieve in their mediums. In comparison, the approval of their budget provides an annual possibility to restrain or punish the institution. How would the perception and control of locomotion develop if infants were restrained? One gently restrained the cat in the sternal position at the center of a circular table. The animal was restrained in a loose-fitting canvas bag and the head fixed to a plexiglass frame using the aluminum crown. 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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