self restraint

基本解释

The Republicans need to demonstrate that they understand the importance of self-restraint, both at home and abroad.
共和党需要证明他们理解自我克制（针对国内和国际事务）的重要性。
It senses its power is growing and this leads to a posture of great self- restraint, even passivity and reluctance to rock the boat.
它感觉自己实力在日渐增长，这促使其摆出极大的自我克制、甚至是被动的姿态，不愿改变现状。
We have become capable of the most stunning technological breakthroughs -- but we are sabotaging them by proving ourselves incapable of the most basic forms of self-restraint.
我们有能力实现最惊人的技术突破，但由于我们无法进行更基本层面的自我克制，我们正在破坏我们取得的成就。

The kind of discipline and self-restraint necessary for an educated mind appears, for him, to be unequally divided among human beings.
那种受过教育者,所必备的纪律与自制，对他而言似乎是不平等地,区隔了人群。
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Hardly. Does it not require those qualities of self-control, discipline, and restraint necessary to achieve success here?
不！难道不需要那些特质吗,诸如自控，纪律与克制等，以求在此取得成功？
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Restraint or self-control is necessary for freedom or self-government.
克制与自控,是自由的必备条件或自我管理。
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If Turkey were a totalitarian state, there would be no case for Armenian self-restraint.
ECONOMIST: Armenians and Turks

If you show self-restraint, you do not do something even though you would like to do it, because you think it would be better not to.