| 单词 | refrain |
| 释义 | refrain (once / 419 pages) 1v 2n When someone burps in a quiet classroom it can be hard to refrain from laughing. Use the verb refrain if you have a sudden impulse to do something, and you have stopped yourself from doing it. It's usually hard to refrain from doing something, because this word is used to describe habits, like smoking, or uncontrollable urges, like laughing. The Latin word refrēnāre is formed from the prefix re- "back" plus frēnāre "to hold a horse back with a bridle." There is a noun refrain, but that's a different and unrelated word. WORD FAMILYrefrain: refrained, refraining, refrains USAGE EXAMPLESThat was the refrain when 2016 began with the worst start ever. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) The report says lawmakers should refrain from levying the fees until more people are driving electric vehicles. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) In another, she holds a placard printed with Sojourner Truth’s famous refrain, “Ar’n’t I a Woman,” on a narrow stretch of Canal Street. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) 1 1v resist doing something He refrained from hitting him back Syn|Ant|Hypo forbear act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) leave, leave alone, leave behind leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking let it gonot act abstainrefrain from voting save, sparerefrain from harming forbear, hold backrefrain from doing help, help oneselfabstain from doing; always used with a negative stand bynot act or do anything sit outnot participate in (an activity, such as a dance or a sports event) letleave unchanged favor, favourtreat gently or carefully 2v choose not to consume 2Syn|Ant|Hypo abstain, desist consume, have, ingest, take, take in serve oneself to, or consume regularly fast abstain from eating fastabstain from certain foods, as for religious or medical reasons avoid, keep offrefrain from certain foods or beverages teetotalpractice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages dieteat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight dietfollow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons n the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers Syn|Hypo|Hyper chorus tra-la, tra-la-la a set of nonsensical syllables used while humming a refrain music an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner |
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