【句子】Please restrain yourself, Gabrielle.  【Desperate Housewives S2E10】

【发音】/pliːz/ /rɪˈstreɪn/ /jə(r)ˈself/ /ˌɡæb.riˈel/

【发音技巧】暂无；

【翻译】请自重，加布丽尔。

【适用场合】

今天我们来学习一下这个表达，restrain oneself，这里的动词restrain可以理解成：to control the actions or behaviour of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from doing sth., or to limit the growth or force of sth.；

所以它有“抑制、克制、阻止、限制”这样的意思；

而对应地，restrain oneself可以理解成“控制自己的情绪、行为”，在口语中也经常会有restrain oneself from doing sth. 的用法；

If you restrain yourself from doing sth., you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.

eg: Unable to restrain herself, she rose and went to the phone.

她控制不住自己的情绪，站起身走向了电话。

eg: She was so angry that she could hardly restrain herself.

她当时是如此的愤怒以至于她很难控制住自己的情绪。

eg: She had to restrain herself from crying out in pain.

她不得不忍住，才没有痛得喊出声来。

eg: I was tempted to answer back, but I restrained myself.

我本来想顶嘴，但还是忍住了。

eg: Please restrain yourself from coughing during the performance.

在演出期间，请克制一下，不要咳嗽。

eg: I wanted another piece but somehow restrained myself.

我还想再吃一块，但是我管住了自己。

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They restrained themselves from laughing.