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 restraint [rɪ'strent]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 抑制, 克制, 束缚

[医] 约束, 拘束

[经] 禁止, 约束




    restraint
    [ noun ]
    1. the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

      2. <noun.act>
      the unlawful restraint of trade
    2. discipline in personal and social activities

      3. <noun.attribute>
      he was a model of polite restraint
      she never lost control of herself
    3. the state of being physically constrained

      4. <noun.state>
      dogs should be kept under restraint
    4. a rule or condition that limits freedom

      5. <noun.cognition>
      legal restraints
      restraints imposed on imports
    5. lack of ornamentation

      6. <noun.attribute>
      the room was simply decorated with great restraint
    6. a device that retards something's motion

      7. <noun.artifact>
      the car did not have proper restraints fitted


    Restraint \Re*straint"\, n. [OF. restraincte, fr. restrainct, F.
    restreint, p. p. of restraindre, restrendre. See {Restrain}.]
    1. The act or process of restraining, or of holding back or
    hindering from motion or action, in any manner; hindrance
    of the will, or of any action, physical or mental.

    No man was altogether above the restrains of law,
    and no man altogether below its protection.
    --Macaulay.

    2. The state of being restrained.

    3. That which restrains, as a law, a prohibition, or the
    like; limitation; restriction.

    For one restraint, lords of the world besides.
    --Milton.

    Syn: Repression; hindrance; check; stop; curb;?oercion;
    confinement; limitation; restriction.

    1. In the midst of these the ripe and rusty Basilio of Nicolay Ghiaurov, with his imposing Slavonic bigness a potential cuckoo in the nest, was all the more effective for his restraint.
    2. Pacific Scientific makes restraint equipment, instruments, motors and controls.
    3. Like the House, the Senate committee declined to kill any programs, relying instead on across-the-board spending restraint to reach deficit-reduction targets without making those tough choices in an election year.
    4. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres visited troops in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem and called for restraint in quelling Arab protests in the occupied lands, saying excessive force would only radicalize Palestinians.
    5. The caution among economists reflects awareness of a number of factors that could act as a restraint on activity.
    6. Thatcher has spoken out publicly about the need for restraint.
    7. "We realize that President Bush and many members of Congress are supporting the extension of the restraint agreement in the fall of 1989, but they have the time now to rethink and modify the program before it is too late," Laffer said.
    8. In other commodity markets yesterday: ENERGY: Prices tumbled as prospects dimmed for new, meaningful production restraint by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
    9. Frightened neighbors will counsel restraint. Only U.S. leadership will be able to contain the culprits in time to prevent war.
    10. But it could gain assent to essentially flat wages through to 1996. To lock the unions into such restraint the government will probably have to jettison part of its planned reform of the overtly rigid labour laws.
    11. Volcker or Greenspan had much effect on the market, the testimony seemed to confirm a continued cautious Fed approach with restraint on monetary policy, one economist with a U.K. bank said.
    12. "The great bulk of art objects are flowing out without any restraint at all," he said in an interview.
    13. The oil ministers of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates met Tuesday evening in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and later issued a statement urging production restraint.
    14. An excessive number of new outlets contributed significantly to the high degree of price restraint that has marked the economic recovery. Under Environment Secretary John Gummer this period of liberalisation is drawing to a close.
    15. If a single European currency is created, on a basis of monetary stability and budgetary restraint, it can hardly fail to displace the dollar as the world's pivotal currency.
    16. We have shown tremendous restraint.'
    17. The same restraint is seen in the governor's competition with the Rev. Jackson among homosexuals.
    18. That restraint seemed aimed at limiting public anger over a rail strike, and blunting any resultant move by Congress to enact into law recommendations made in January by a presidential emergency board.
    19. Wage restraint would 'help business to compete' and assist in the creation of new jobs. In a combative speech, Mr Portillo sought to portray the government's battle to control public spending as for the good of the whole economy.
    20. A Canadian official, briefing reporters on the condition that the official's name not be used, said that there was skepticism about Bush's "flexible freeze" approach to reducing the deficit through spending restraint, without the aid of new taxes.
    21. Although the essence of the new decorating attitudes is that you can have exactly what you want, even if it's vulgar excess, Buatta does see a general trend toward restraint.
    22. Today's office workers are subject to bodily restraint, social isolation and mental monotony for eight hours daily, says Mr. Edelson.
    23. "If we could do it all through spending restraint, that would be ideal," said Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas. "That's not going to happen." A showdown could come as early as Wednesday in the House and Thursday in the Senate.
    24. "We believe that such action might be considered `prior restraint' and unconstitutional by the appellate courts," Schill wrote.
    25. The report warns that Opec must exercise restraint if it is to see prices rise. Falling production from the former Soviet Union has, in the past, given Opec room to manoeuvre on capacity increases.
    26. The trade group said import levels for the first six months of 1987 were "substantially above" the Reagan administration's voluntary import restraint program target of 20.2%.
    27. At the same time, disclosures that the military was paying outrageous prices for custom-made toilet seats and coffee pots were generating congressional and public demands for restraint.
    28. She delivered stern warnings about dismantling arsenals too soon and balked at President Bush's proposal that the alliance stiffen its policy restraint on the use of theater nuclear weapons.
    29. But he did not say if the Iraqi restraint would continue until the results of the election will be known sometime next week.
    30. Nixon has expressed disapproval of U.S. sanctions, saying that messages should be sent through private channels asking the Chinese to show restraint.
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