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

• Besides avoiding caffeine intake after lunch and refraining from doing physical exercise before bed, here are more tips for improving sleep efficiency, curated from news website Vox and Quartz.
  除了午餐后不摄入***、睡前避免体育运动之外，Vox与Quartz网站还为大家提供了一些提高睡眠质量的小建议，一起来看吧！
• 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。
• Refraining from lying and betraying promises.
  不撒谎和背叛，信守诺言。
• Peter flushed, refraining from a quick retort.
  彼得脸红了，没有立即反驳。
• Refraining from making judgments especially ones based on personal opinions or standards.
  避免做出特别是基于个人观点或者标准的判断。
• It is necessary to concentrate our efforts on advancing economic cooperation in the spirit of doing certain things and refraining from doing other things.
  要坚持有所为有所不为的原则，专心致志推进经济合作。
• 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。
• '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。
• Make a place messy by strewing garbage around. By just picking up litter and refraining from littering, we are doing meritorious deeds.
  在一个地方乱丢垃圾致使非常凌乱。能不乱丢垃圾，随时清捡垃圾，都是做的功德。
• For the most part, the public has shown him only kindne and sympathy to his face, refraining from blaming him for the tragedy.
  大部分公众当面对他表示的都是关心和同情，并没有将悲剧归罪于他。