refrain

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
    — For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up. It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
  2. A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying. broadly
动词 v.
  1. To hold back, to restrain (someone or something). archaic,transitive
    — Refrain thy foot from their path.
  2. To show restraint; to hold oneself back. archaic,reflexive
    — And nowe I saye unto you: refrayne youreselves from these men, and let them alone [...].
  3. To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb. archaic,transitive
  4. To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain; to eschew intransitive
    — Refrain from these men, and let them alone.
  5. To abstain from (food or drink). rare,regional,transitive
    — Who, requiring a remedy for his gout, received no other counsel than to refrain cold drink.

词形变化

refrains present,singular,third-person refraining participle,present refrained participle,past refrained past refrains plural

词汇关系

衍生词
refrainer refrainment unrefraining

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English refreynen, from Anglo-Norman refrener, Old French refrener, from Latin refrēnāre, from re- + frēnāre, from frēnum.
词源 2
From French refrain, from the Old French verb refraindre (“to break off, repeat”), from Latin re- (“back, again”) + frangō (“break”); compare Occitan refranhs (“a refrain”), refranher (“to repeat”). See refract and the verb refrain.
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