Restrain

(verb.) hold back.

(verb.) to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; 'This holds the local until the express passengers change trains'; 'About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade'; 'The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center'; 'The terrorists held the journalists for ransom'.

(verb.) keep under control; keep in check; 'suppress a smile'; 'Keep your temper'; 'keep your cool'.

整理:斯图

• It seemed to me that he was making desperate efforts to restrain a convulsive attack of laughter. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Restrain him,' cried Mr. Snodgrass; 'Winkle, Tupman--he must not peril his distinguished life in such a cause as this. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Next day Alexander departed with his mother--and Philip did nothing to restrain them. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As far as possible he must confine himself to facts and restrain his opinions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He is the son of a miserly oligarch, and has been taught by him to restrain the love of unnecessary pleasures. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The usual corporation spirit, wherever the law does not restrain it, prevails in all regulated companies. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When he did begin to restrain himself, it was that he might spare her. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Selden continued with a smile: You see no such scruples restrained me; but then I haven't as much to risk if I incur your displeasure. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Every one now sat down, Mr. Bulstrode presiding, pale and self-restrained as usual. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Martin threw a strange look at him, and trembled through all his slight lad's frame; but he restrained himself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But I was restrained, when I thought of the heroic and suffering Elizabeth, whom I tenderly loved, and whose existence was bound up in mine. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• My uncle was almost persuaded that you were indeed dangerously ill, and could hardly be restrained from undertaking a journey to Ingolstadt. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Jo wanted to laugh, but restrained herself and said warmly, for she too, was getting excited with all this, Don't swear, Teddy! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It is full time, said De Bracy, that the 'outrecuidance' [19] of these peasants should be restrained by some striking example. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I thank you for restraining me just now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• This is a sumptuary law, too, restraining the luxury and extravagance of the poor. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I had no difficulty in restraining my voice from exclamation, my step from hasty advance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I kept over him as a child, in the days of his first remembrance, my restraining and correcting hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• After the institution of feudal subordination, the king was as incapable of restraining the violence of the great lords as before. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The frenzy was so violent, that I had not unfastened the bandages restraining the arms; but, I had looked to them, to see that they were not painful. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Restraining influence, Mr Twemlow? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Allan restrains the woman, merely by a quiet gesture, but effectually. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A long term of apprenticeship restrains it more indirectly, but as effectually, by increasing the expense of education. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The limitation of the number of apprentices restrains it directly. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Moore restrains them with admirable prudence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

手打:波莱特