Refrain

(noun.) the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers.

(verb.) resist doing something; 'He refrained from hitting him back'; 'she could not forbear weeping'.

手打:胡里奥

• Fanny, not able to refrain entirely from observing them, had seen enough to be tolerably satisfied. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Fanny acknowledged her wishes and doubts on this point: she did not know how either to wear the cross, or to refrain from wearing it. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• As I did the other day, said Elizabeth with a conscious smile: very true, it will be wise in me to refrain from _that_. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• They had the wisdom to refrain from any overt meddling with public ideas. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Who that is not a miserable caitiff will refrain from smiling at the praises of justice? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But if they refrain therefrom, clothe them and feed them suitably. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• During her confinement, many arguments had been urged to persuade my mother to refrain from attending upon her. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• While I thought you could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained from saying it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• You would have it that such was the case, and I refrained from contradiction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I refrained from alarming the house, and telling everybody what had happened--as I ought to have done. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Under favour, sir, replied the yeoman, I have another reason for refraining to shoot, besides the fearing discomfiture and disgrace. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I supposed he regarded my silence as eccentricbut he was indulgent in refraining from censure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• No precaution could have been more obvious than our refraining from communication with him that day; yet this again increased my restlessness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• As he fights he wins approval and advancement; as he refrains, he is disliked, ridiculed, shut out from favorable recognition. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

校对:佩里