| 词汇 | restraint |
| 释义 | restraint noun uk /rɪˈstreɪnt/ us /rɪˈstreɪnt/ [ U ] calm and controlled behaviour: 克制；平心静气；冷静 He showed admirable restraint, and refused to be provoked.他表现出极大的克制，面对挑衅泰然处之。 The security forces exercised(= used) great restraint by not responding to hostile attacks and threats.面对充满敌意的攻击和威胁，安全部队没有进行还击，表现出极大的克制。 [ C or U ] something that limits the freedom of someone or something, or that prevents something from growing or increasing: 阻止；抑制，遏制 government spending restraints对政府开支的限制 Lack of space is the main restraint on the firm's expansion plans.建筑空间的缺乏是阻碍这家公司实施其扩建计划的主要原因。 During the recession, the government opted for a policy of pay/wage restraint rather than a reduction in public investment.在经济衰退时期，政府选择的政策是限制工资增长，而不是削减公共投资。 Synonyms check(LIMIT) constraint control(POWER) curb(CONTROL) curtailment limit limitation rein restriction keep/place someone under restraint to keep a violent person in a way that prevents them from moving freely: 限制（某人）的人身自由;对（某人）进行管制 The two prisoners were kept under restraint while they were transported between prisons.在转监途中，两名犯人受到了人身限制。 Self-control and moderation anti-pleasure ascetically asceticism be in command (of yourself)idiom boundary go easyidiom go steady on somethingidiom golden mean grip imperviously puritanically puritanism restrained restrainedly restrict stint temperance undignified unsensational willpower You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Limiting and restricting restraint | American Dictionaryrestraint noun[ C/U ] us/rɪˈstreɪnt/ determined control over behavior in order to prevent the strong expression of emotion or any violent action: [ U ]You really have to show a lot of restraint to stay out of debt. A restraint is something that limits freedom of movement, action, or growth: [ C ]Social restraints seem to have become dangerously unrestrictive. restraint | Business Englishrestraint noun uk /rɪˈstreɪnt/us [ C,usually plural ] a rule or an agreement that limits the freedom of a person, organization, or country, or that prevents something from growing or increasing: restraints on sthThe bill urges the government to impose restraints on imports. export/import restraints budget restraints financial/fiscal/spending restraints [ U ] the act of preventing something from growing or increasing: The oil industry is exercising restraint. restraint of trade COMMERCE an illegal agreement that damages someone's ability to do business: Any contract which interferes with the free exercise of his trade or business is a contract in restraint of trade. See also price restraint voluntary export restraint wage restraint Examples of restraintrestraint The second describes the empirical analysis, clarifying the effects of democracy and executive restraints on governance quality. The use of physical and pharmacological restraints leads to more severe injuries from falls. The average violation equals the sum of violations divided by the number of restraints. On executive discretion, 17 countries are classified as having meaningful restraints, while the remaining 21 lack such restraints. While some legal restraints on labour may exist, liberalized labour markets are underpinned principally by the electoral dominance of pro-neoliberal parties. Indeed, paramagnetism-based restraints are very efficient for mapping the binding sites and the interactions with other proteins or small molecules. An error-tolerant target function reduces the impact of erroneous restraints on the calculated structures. In practice, often more than half of the intraresidual and many sequential restraints are irrelevant. Being in an early stage of their application, the potential of orientation restraints in biomolecular structure calculation remains to be assessed by further research. All upper and lower limit distance restraints, scalar couplings and angle restraints available within the fragment are used. Yes, the fundamental thing is the capacity to resist, not to surrender, because the future has only obstacles, delusions, and restraints. The close correlation between democratic contestation and executive restraints makes it difficult to distinguish very sharply between their effects on developmental governance. The main finding is that a combination of democratic contestation and institutional restraints on governments' discretionary authority substantially improves developmental governance. In assessing democratic institutions' impact on governance quality, it therefore makes sense first to examine the effects of contestation and restraints jointly. The main finding is that a combination of democratic contestation and institutional restraints on governments' discretionary executive authority improves governance quality substantially. See all examples of restraint 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. Collocations withrestraintrestraintThese are words often used in combination with restraint. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. budgetary restraint The proposed price changes achieve a reasonable balance between the needs of processors, consumers and producers, and take account of the need for budgetaryrestraint. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 considerable restraint He, like other wizard and muggle2 children, needs protection and care and friendship; he also needs to study and learn, develop self-confidence, make choices, and exercise judgment and considerable restraint. financial restraint A weak economy for much of the nineteenth century seems to have placed a heavy financialrestraint upon the parish. 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. See all collocations with restraint |
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