refraining

英 [rɪˈfreɪnɪŋ]

美 [rɪˈfreɪnɪŋ]

v.  克制; 节制; 避免
refrain的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 克制;忍住
  If yourefrain fromdoing something, you deliberately do not do it.
  1. Mrs Hardie refrained from making any comment...
     哈迪夫人忍住不作任何评论。
  2. He appealed to all factions to refrain from violence.
     他呼吁所有派系避免使用暴力。
• N-COUNT （歌曲的）叠句，副歌部分
  Arefrainis a short, simple part of a song, which is repeated many times.
  1. ...a refrain from an old song.
     一首老歌的副歌部分
• N-COUNT 反复说的话;老调
  Arefrainis a comment or saying that people often repeat.
  1. Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a life.
     罗莎总是重复的一句话就是她没有像样的生活。

双语例句

• First, refraining from telling any lies.
  第一，不说任何谎话。
• By refraining from doing so, am I taking advantage of a policy designed to counter social and institutional discrimination against women?
  如果我不说明，那我是否从那个旨在对抗社会和制度对女性歧视的政策中获得了利益？
• Why are these people pulling back and refraining from trying new things? I did not take them seriously and went on to do what was profitable.
  为什么这些人宁可往后退也不愿尝试新事物？但我却没有把这当回事，继续我行我素。
• An attempt to control conception by refraining from intercourse during the period when ovulation is most likely to occur.
  在排卵最可能出现期间节制交往试图控制出生的方法。
• By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
  通过戒除或者减少肉类的摄入，可使更多活性脢（酵素）进攻癌细胞的蛋白质壁，进而使机体的杀伤细胞得以破坏癌细胞。
• 'Preventive approaches such as warming a bathroom and hallway or refraining from taking a deep, hot bath could be important for high risk people,'Dr Nishiyama wrote in the journal Resuscitation.
  “如给浴室和走廊加温或避免长时间的热水澡这些预防措施对高风险人群非常重要。”Nishiyama在《复活》杂志中写道。
• Conventions aimed at reliability involve things such as refraining from using recursive functions or goto statements that tend to make code complex and prone to bugs.
  约定的可靠性目标涉及到避免使用递归函数或goto语句，因为它们容易增加代码的复杂性，从而导致出现bug。
• But there are widespread rumours that the Chinese are also getting cold feet not in the sense that they are actually selling those euro holdings, but rather that they are refraining from buying too much more euro debt.
  但现在市场上普遍谣传，中国投资者也开始畏缩了不是说他们真的开始出售所持的欧元资产，而是他们开始克制购买更多的欧元债券。
• Assist and further the interests of colleagues, refraining from comments injurious to the reputation of a colleague.
  帮助并促进同事的利益，避免对同事名誉有害的言论。
• Peter flushed, refraining from a quick retort.
  彼得脸红了，没有立即反驳。