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

• So it is clear that vegetarianism was common among Christians in Paul's day, to the extent that he had to refute their claim that refraining from meat was an act of piety.
  因此，很明显，保罗时代素食在基督徒中是很普遍的，以至于他得驳斥他们声称的不吃肉是虔诚的表现。
• A woman is rewarded in both cases for submitting to a divine command and showing obedience to Allah by refraining on specified times, as well as by obliging on other times.
  一个妇女若顺服安拉的旨意并在生理期戒除礼拜和斋戒以表示服从安拉，那么在这两种情况下这个妇女是会获得报酬的。
• 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。
• Prime Minister Modi made several trips to these countries with the sole purpose of strengthening relations and marking its position in South Asia, while refraining China from making inroads into the region.
  总理莫迪访问过这些国家，出于一个目的&加强和巩固其在南亚的地位，然而抑制中国进去该地区。
• EU policy with respect to tax competition is currently based on member states refraining from implementing new tax competition measures and on dismantling old measures perceived to be harmful.
  目前，欧盟与税收竞争相关的政策是基于以下原则：各成员国克制实施新的税收竞争措施，废除被视为有害的旧措施。
• 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。
• Any enterprise exists risks and it's running is a process of refraining from risks.
  企业就是一个风险实体，企业的经营过程就是一个规避风险的过程。
• It is important to note that refraining from praying and fasting during menses is actually an act of worship& just like observing Prayers and fasting in normal days.
  值得注意的是，在经期戒除礼拜和斋戒实际上也是一种功修&就像在平时完善拜功和斋戒一样。
• 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。
• Through this competition, the original weak SMEs has a survival and development, effectively refraining the large enterprises using the monopoly advantage to destroy the effective competition of market, and providing suitable conditions for the existence of competitive market structure.
  通过这种竞争，原本势单力薄的中小企业得以存活和发展，有效地遏制了大企业利用垄断优势破坏市场的有效竞争，为竞争性的市场结构的存在提供了条件。