refraining 的 2 个定义
- to abstain from an impulse to say or do something: I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- Archaic. to curb.
refraining 近义词
do without; keep from doing
更多refraining例句
- I can tell you’ve got a longing to sally forth, a-thronging—I ask you, please refrain.
- The agreement called on providers to refrain from shutting off business or residential customers who could not pay, for example, and suspended potential late fees.
- Still, some political operatives doubted that companies would be able to refrain from PAC donations for long.
- That advice has been a constant refrain in a pandemic responsible for more than 350,000 deaths in the United States.
- Hospital leaders, front-line workers and experts condemned Ducey for refraining from imposing sweeping mitigation measures.
- Where tenders are required, the government can prevent construction by simply refraining from issuing tenders.
- In short, does refraining from running buses on Shabbat serve to unify the country around the symbol of the Jewish week?
- In some cases, people are refraining from shaving to benefit a charity—but not the ones tied to Movember.
- Refraining from vowing to him, man sustains a character no higher than the wicked who restrain prayer before God.
- What had happened to her that she should be thus beside herself, and hardly capable of refraining from open tears?
- Abstain′er, specially one who does not take alcoholic drinks; Absten′tion, a refraining.
- She moved away, majestically as does a goddess, conscious of her power but magnanimously refraining from using it.
- By refraining from the physical expression, one may at least partially inhibit the emotion.