例句
英語六級真題
Shoppers refrained from buying cars, appliances, and other big-ticket items.
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People refrained from buying durables and big-ticket items
出自-2013年6月閱讀原文
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學習詞典釋義
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VERB
克制;忍住
If you refrain from doing something, you deliberately do not do it.
例句
Mrs Hardie refrained from making any comment...
哈迪夫人忍住不作任何評論。
He appealed to all factions to refrain from violence.
他呼吁所有派系避免使用暴力。
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（歌曲的）疊句，副歌部分
A refrain is a short, simple part of a song, which is repeated many times.
例句
...a refrain from an old song.
一首老歌的副歌部分
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反復說的話;老調
A refrain is a comment or saying that people often repeat.
例句
Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a life.
羅莎總是重復的一句話就是她沒有像樣的生活。