restrain

verb

1. place limits on (extent or access)

e.g. restrict the use of this parking lot
limit the time you can spend with your friends

Synonym: restricttrammellimitboundconfinethrottle

2. hold back

Synonym: encumbercumberconstrain

3. to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement

e.g. This holds the local until the express passengers change trains
About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade
The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center
The terrorists held the journalists for ransom

Synonym: confinehold

4. to compel or deter by or as if by threats

Synonym: intimidate

5. keep under control
keep in check

e.g. suppress a smile
Keep your temper
keep your cool

Synonym: keepkeep backhold back

1. 制止;阻止
If you restrain someone, you stop them from doing what they intended or wanted to do, usually by using your physical strength.

e.g. Wally gripped my arm, partly to restrain me and partly to reassure me...
沃利抓住我的手臂，一是想制止我，二是想稳住我。
e.g. One onlooker had to be restrained by police.
一个旁观者遭到了警察的制止。

2. 克制(情绪);抑制（自己）
If you restrain an emotion or you restrain yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.

e.g. She was unable to restrain her desperate anger...
她无法控制自己极度的愤怒。
e.g. Unable to restrain herself, she rose and went to the phone...
她没能克制住自己，起身走向电话。

3. 抑制;限制;控制
To restrain something that is growing or increasing means to prevent it from getting too large.

e.g. The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to restrain inflation...
这个为期500天的激进计划明确阐明将如何控制通货膨胀。
e.g. In the 1970s, the government tried to restrain corruption.
在20世纪70年代，政府曾经试图打击腐败。

1. restrain的翻译

1. 限制：共同发现易搞混(confound),共同做过为宽恕(condone),共同夹死为拥挤 (congest),共同给予为默许(connive) 大街上下雨为拉紧(strain),共同拉紧是束缚(constrain),拉紧少花是污点(stain),反复拉紧是 限制(restrain) 盖他为秘密(covert),

2. restrain是什么意思

2. 阻止：美国政策的目标是遏制(deter)北京采取军事行动,并且阻止(restrain)台北会挑起武力所使用的政治举动. 我们也寻求向中国保证,我们不会支持台湾,并且向台湾重申,我们尊重岛内的民主. 美国也持续向台湾出售防御性武器系统,