refrains

英 [rɪˈfreɪnz]

美 [rɪˈfreɪnz]

v.  克制; 节制; 避免
refrain的第三人称单数

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

• Protection of Life Album of Painting, the religious ecology ethics thought cartoon collection is a cartoon series created together by the modern Buddhist priests and laymen for the purpose of propagating refrains from killing, protecting lives and so on.
  《护生画集》是近代僧俗两界共同创作的一部旨在弘扬戒杀、护生等宗教生态伦理思想的漫画丛书。
• She refrains from telling you the whole story.
  她避免从有效的你原委。
• Many folk songs have "refrains", that is, regularly repeated independent elements attached to each stanza.
  许多民歌有重复句，即每一段都有规则地重复出现的单独句。
• The concept problem is the key problem which refrains the teacher's specialization in colleges and universities.
  观念问题是制约高校教师专业化的核心问题。
• At the same time, context refrains the deviation of hyperbole.
  同时，语境制约着夸张中的偏离。
• Though she is curious about his past, she refrains from asking too many questions.
  尽管她对他的过去很好奇，但她尽量避免问他过多的问题。
• In the US, common sales refrains advertise a vacation everyday or resort living. Selling points are social contact, rich services and community activities.
  在美国，惯用的销售招式则是打广告，宣传（住老年公寓）是天天度假或者度假地生活，卖点是广交朋友、服务多样以及集体活动。
• The improvement on wettability is due to the addition of Cu which decreases the activity of Zn and refrains the oxidation of Zn atoms at the surface of liquid solder. Better wetting behavior is gotten because of the lower surface tension of liquid solder.
  这是由于Cu的加入降低了Zn的活性，减少了Zn在钎料表面氧化，降低了液态钎料表面张力，使得钎料能获得较好的润湿性。
• Furthermore, it must not be said that the law may be philanthropic if, in the process, it refrains from oppressing persons and plundering them of their property; this would be a contradiction.
  此外，如果它没有压迫人民、有掠夺他们的财产，也不能说法律是慈善的；这是一个矛盾。
• On her path from factory worker to real-estate agent, Luyuan had started spouting common refrains from the state-controlled newspaper.
  随着李芦媛从一名工厂女工转变为房地产中介，她也开始滔滔不绝谈论国有报纸上常常出现的话题。