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小词详解 | refrain
Hence the refrain of some that low unemployment is a mirage: stronger economic growth, they say, could draw plenty of folk back into work.
因此一些人反复表示,低失业率是一种幻象。他们说,强劲的经济增长能吸引许多人重返职场。
——《经济学人》White House aides say they expect the president to try to refrain from criticism during the transition because of his belief in the importance of a courteous and dignified transfer of power.
白宫幕僚们说,他们估计总统会在过渡时期内克制自己不去批评,因为他相信礼貌且有尊严的权力移交是非常重要的。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 阻止自己做某事
我们忍住不嘲笑他们的新鞋子,直到他们走了。
We refrained from sneering at their new shoes until they were gone.那个总是自我吹嘘的异见分子克制住了自己,没有在公开场合批评政府。
The dissident who always blows his own trumpet has refrained from criticizing the government in public.
抱怨服务差已是耳熟能详的老调了。
Complaints about poor service have become a familiar refrain.罗莎总是重复的一句话就是她没有舒坦的生活。
Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a snug life.
The presence even for a moment among a party of debauchees of a woman endued with every quality of modesty and not less severe than beautiful refrained the humorous sallies even of the most licentious but her departure was the signal for an outbreak of ribaldry.
一贤淑端庄、容貌标致之淑女一时出现于荡子群中,彼等淫荡之徒便即刻收敛其轻佻猥亵。然而俟伊退出后,秽言秽语刹那间重新爆发。
eschew: deliberately avoid using; abstain from abstain: restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something desist: stop doing something; cease or abstain
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