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单词 restraint
释义
re·straint (rĭ-strānt)
n.
1.
a. The act of restraining: police restraint of the suspect.
b. The condition of being restrained, especially the condition of losing one's freedom: a suspect held in restraint.
2.
a. An influence that inhibits or restrains: "If the enemy could be defined as radically evil, then the restraints of morality did not apply" (James Carroll).
b. A device or other means of restraining movement: a child restraint in a car.
3. Control of the expression of one's feelings; constraint: cursed without restraint.

[Middle English restreinte, from Old French restrainte, from feminine past participle of restraindre, to restrain; see RESTRAIN.]
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