One way to picture it: a force pulling back on something that wants to move forward — a hand on the reins, whether the hand is your own or someone else's.
From the word’s history
From Old French restreindre, from Latin restringere "to bind back, tie fast" (re- "back" + stringere "draw tight") — the same stringere behind strict and stringent.
來自古法文 restreinte，源頭是拉丁文 restringere「往回綁緊」(re- 往回 + stringere 拉緊)。strict、stringent 也是這個 stringere 家族。所以 restraint 底層就是「往回拉緊、綁住」的動作——不管拉的是韁繩、是規定，還是自己的脾氣。
Wiktionary: restraint — from Old French restreinte, past participle of restreindre, from Latin restringere ("to bind back")
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原始詞典資料2 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。
restraintnoun/ɹɪˈstɹeɪnt/
- 1
Something that restrains, ties, fastens or secures.
- Make sure all the restraints are tight.
- At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.
- 2
Control or caution; reserve.
- Try to exercise restraint when talking to your boss.
- City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
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