- 1自制；自我克制
Self-restraint is the ability to stop yourself doing or saying something you want to do, because it would be wiser not to — the last cake, a sharp reply, a foolish spend. It sits very close to self-control, and people often swap the two. Though actually, self-restraint can feel a little cooler and more grown-up: we praise a politician’s self-restraint, or someone’s self-restraint in an argument. It is a noun, and a bit formal for tiny everyday moments; for those, self-control is the more ordinary word. The important picture is you holding you back, not somebody else holding you back.
From the word’s history
From self- + restraint.
由 self-「自己」加 restraint「克制」組成。
組成self-（自己）+ restraint（克制、攔住）。合起來：自己攔住自己。
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
self-restraintnoun
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Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
- His lack of self-restraint led to several ugly scenes of debauchery and violent outburst.
- Sovereigntism means a country doing what it wants to do within only the limits of what it can do. It means the end of self-restraint within a framework of mutual restraint.
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