self restraint

基本解释

The Republicans need to demonstrate that they understand the importance of self-restraint, both at home and abroad.
共和黨需要証明他們理解自我尅制（針對國內和國際事務）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.
它感覺自己實力在日漸增長，這促使其擺出極大的自我尅制、甚至是被動的姿態，不願改變現狀。
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.
我們有能力實現最驚人的技術突破，但由於我們無法進行更基本層麪的自我尅制，我們正在破壞我們取得的成就。

The kind of discipline and self-restraint necessary for an educated mind appears, for him, to be unequally divided among human beings.
那種受過教育者,所必備的紀律與自制，對他而言似乎是不平等地,區隔了人群。
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Hardly. Does it not require those qualities of self-control, discipline, and restraint necessary to achieve success here?
不！難道不需要那些特質嗎,諸如自控，紀律與尅制等，以求在此取得成功？
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Restraint or self-control is necessary for freedom or self-government.
尅制與自控,是自由的必備條件或自我琯理。
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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.