名词

1. 限制;制约因素;管制措施
Restraints are rules or conditions that limit or restrict someone or something.

2. 克制;抑制;遏制
Restraint is calm, controlled, and unemotional behaviour.

3. 限制;控制
Restraint of something is the act of preventing it from increasing too much or from being done freely.

1. the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

e.g. the unlawful restraint of trade

2. a device that retards something's motion

e.g. the car did not have proper restraints fitted

Synonym: constraint

3. lack of ornamentation

e.g. the room was simply decorated with great restraint

Synonym: chastenesssimplicitysimpleness

4. discipline in personal and social activities

e.g. he was a model of polite restraint
she never lost control of herself

Synonym: control

5. a rule or condition that limits freedom

e.g. legal restraints
restraints imposed on imports

6. the state of being physically constrained

e.g. dogs should be kept under restraint

Synonym: constraint