refrain
refrain 英 [rɪˈfreɪn] 美 [rɪˈfren]
vi. 节制，克制 n. 重复，老生常谈
进行时:refraining 过去式:refrained 过去分词:refrained 第三人称单数:refrains 名词复数:refrains
- When someone burps in a quiet classroom it can be hard to refrain from laughing. Use the verb refrain if you have a sudden impulse to do something, and you have stopped yourself from doing it.
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- vi. 节制，克制
- n. 重复，老生常谈
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1. Please refrain from smoking.
请勿吸烟。
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2. He has refrained from criticizing the government in public.
他克制住了自己，没有在公开场合批评政府。
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3. Complaints about poor food in schools have become a familiar refrain.
抱怨学校饭菜差已是耳熟能详的老调了。
- refrain (n.) late 14c., from Old French refrain "chorus" (13c.), alteration of refrait, noun use of past participle of refraindre "repeat," also "break off," from Vulgar Latin *refrangere "break off," alteration of Latin refringere "break up, break open" (see refraction) by influence of frangere "to break." Influenced in French by cognate Provençal refranhar "singing of birds, refrain." The notion is of something that causes a song to "break off" then resume. OED says not common before 19c.
- refrain (v.) mid-14c., from Old French refraigner "restrain, repress, keep in check" (12c., Modern French Réfréner), from Latin refrenare "to bridle, hold in with a bit, check, curb, keep down, control," from re- "back" (see re-) + frenare "restrain, furnish with a bridle," from frenum "a bridle." Related: Refrained; refraining.
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