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
- Others point to the recent emphasis in US schools on cultivating student self-esteem& at the expense of self-restraint.
还有评论家将矛头指向近来美国学校的教育，认为学校过分强调培养学生的自尊&而这是以牺牲自我约束力为代价的。 - 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。 - 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； - Try to exercise a little self-restraint.
试着锻炼一下自我克制。 - They inure themselves to a lifetime of self-restraint.
他们使自己习惯于终身的自我克制。 - 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。 - Without discretion or wisdom or self-restraint.
没有判断力、不明智、没有自制力。 - Marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint.
以谨慎、虚心和聪明的自制力为特点。 - Patience is a kind of conscious self-restraint.
忍耐是一种有意识的自我克制。 - 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。