英语词汇refrain怎么读，是什么意思，单词翻译、读音、固定搭配用法和短语词组及例句-英汉双解词典

refrain¹

verb rɪˈfreɪnrəˈfreɪn

[no object]

Stop oneself from doing something.
忍住，节制
she refrained from comment
她强忍着不作评议。
Example sentencesExamples
- Already jittery on energy drink and party pills, they are sensibly refraining from drinking alcohol to ensure that they will be vertical for the big final act.
- Yet, it appears that it is meticulously refraining from any extreme actions that could trigger a military showdown with the United States.
- To avoid their after taste during dessert, we might have refrained from eating them had we noticed them sooner.
- The public doesn't expect praise for refraining from pogroms, but nor does it expect ceaseless injunctions to abstain from them.
- Since smokers appear to be unable to act in a socially responsible way by voluntarily refraining from smoking in public, it seems there must be a law.
- One other way that the cost of living could be kept down is by Government refraining from increasing taxes of any kind.
- Great people, companies and institutions didn't get where they are by selling themselves short or refraining from trying something different.
- It seems they are refraining from labeling the people they're looking at as suspects.
- Among the six steps the media industry groups said the government could take was refraining from any action that may threaten freedom of expression or freedom of the press.
- Some banks are also refraining from extending loans for fear that they could harm their capital adequacy ratios.
- I explained that it was for my swollen hand, politely refraining from mentioning that it was their fellow nurses who had necessitated the elusive pillow.
- I stood motionless next to the roll of bread, refraining from moving too soon, for fear of being discovered.
- The serious complication of pneumothorax can be avoided by refraining from aiming the needle at an intercostal space.
- I think refraining from showing the video is the right thing to do.
- I immediately warmed to him, and told him my tale of woe, refraining from going into too much detail and being careful not to bring Captain Haddock into it.
- So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis.
- By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike.
- Of them all, Sainte-Beuve alone refrained from hurting me with foolish words.
- Which is why, Matthew, as you explained, the U.S. is refraining from entering any of those sites during this battle.
- Certainly, refraining from food and drink from dawn to dusk is not easy.
Synonyms
abstain, desist, hold back, stop oneself, withhold
forbear, forgo, do without, dispense with, resist the temptation to, avoid, steer clear of, give a wide berth to, have nothing to do with, fight shy of, eschew, shun, renounce, forswear, abjure, leave alone, not touch, reject
stop, cease, finish, discontinue, give up, break off, drop
informal quit, leave off, kick, swear off
British informal jack in
archaic forsake

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'restrain a thought or feeling'): from Old French refrener, from Latin refrenare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + frenum 'bridle'.

Rhymes

abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne

refrain²

noun rɪˈfreɪnrəˈfreɪn

1A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
（诗歌中，尤指在节末）叠句；（歌曲中重复演唱，尤指在末尾）叠歌，副歌
Example sentencesExamples
- She sang a refrain; he sampled it electronically and ' sang ' it back using the keyboard.
- For example, round is another word for a roundelay, which is a short simple song with a refrain.
- There's a 1960s poem with the constant refrain of ' Tell me lies about Vietnam '.
- Think of all the song lines, or at least refrains, we've all memorized.
- Songs and poems must be at least two pages long, not including repeating stanzas or refrains.
- The quatrain is followed by a couplet forming a refrain, also with four stresses.
- The refrain in this song is the line ‘I heard the voice of a porkchop say come unto me and rest.’
- The women sang the words, while the men sang the refrain.
- Or will the parting strains of Robbie Burns' haunting refrain convince her to come back again soon?
- And off she went, singing a sad, sad refrain.
- As the refrain of the country song goes, ‘O Please, Dear God, Not Another One.’
- The first song has the refrain, ‘Dark is life, is death,’ and ends with the macabre image of an ape howling in a graveyard.
- Even Isaiah turns preacher in our text with a sermonic refrain repeated in verses 21 and 28.
- Mary J Blige has even changed the refrain of the song, and sings, ‘No more war.’
- And it gave Ice Cube a haunting refrain in one of his angriest and best tracks.
- Most people will be familiar with the refrain of the song, ‘All I wanna do is have some fun.’
- In these ten short verses, the refrain, ‘Do not fear,’ occurs three times.
- At one point he then took out the aforementioned trumpet and played it with Satchmo-like raunch, singing the refrain in between the lines of melody.
- The refrain goes, " living in the wild wild west".
- These all seem to derive from the Folio text, but some may supplement it by accurately recording where breaks came between verses and refrains.
1. 1.1 The musical accompaniment for a refrain.
  叠歌部分的音乐伴奏
  he would play the refrain
  Example sentencesExamples
  The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic refrain bordering on anarchy.
  To show this really was meant as a band effort, we then get a jaunt through Honest Plain John's ‘Psycho Girl’ with it's jangly guitar refrain and hypnotic chorus.
  The fast sections are extremely delightful with slow sections having wonderful melodies and tender refrains.
  Here the beat is constantly fluttered and redrawn, but somehow held together by the nearly anthemic melodic refrain.
  Then came the haunting solo violin refrain and all the children stopped sawing away - except one.
  The arrangements are intelligent without being fussy: tuneful refrains for cello and woodwind, beguiling motifs for piano and vibes, emotional guitar and restrained drums.
  Look no further than the heartbreaking lyrics and painfully sad mourning orchestral refrains of ‘I Left You’.
  With no distractions other than a few lilting refrains from the skilled guitar of Andrew Pendlebury, the audience needs chemistry between the performers to hold their attention.
  The elegance, the sorrow, the cadences of the language there reminds one of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with its haunting refrains.
  Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it is boring; I must, however, warn you that the melodic refrain is so soothing that, at times, you may find yourself being lulled to sleep.
  The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
  The end result being that this carefully meditated montage of menacing reverb, clanking percussion and tender piano refrains establishes clear themes of late night melancholic reflection.
  Jeremy Soule provides the music with an occasional refrain from John Williams' classic soundtrack.
  Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata.
  I have certain musical refrains that I am purposefully repeating - in a different key, but still repeating.
  The melodies meander but return to touchstone refrains, and the ever-present percussion drive them onward.
  As she began to play the refrain, a voice began to caress her melody.
  Musical refrains differ by virtue of the score or the performer.
  Song for the Others and Borderline positively sparkle with piano refrains from the top drawer.
  It's got a solid bass riff, punchy drums and ear-catching sampled refrains, but could use either a melody or some rapping out front to give it focus.
2. 1.2 A comment or complaint that is often repeated.
  一再重复的话（或抱怨）
  ‘Poor Tom’ had become the constant refrain of his friends
  “可怜的汤姆”已成了他朋友们的口头禅。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A constant refrain from Australian political parties not only in the recent election campaign but for generations has been that Australia cannot afford more money for national defence.
  A constant refrain in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest.
  For the moment, he is all but echoing the same refrain.
  Integration, integration, integration, is her constant refrain.
  One of the constant refrains of successive Governments in the two decades that I have been in the House has been the issue of how Governments facilitate industry development, both at the domestic and at the international level.
  A constant refrain is that Scotland should follow the lead set by Norway, a small, independent country made rich by direct control of its North Sea oil.
  This has been a constant refrain from the Bush administration.
  Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar refrain from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership.
  Although this has been a constant refrain in the past few years, little has been done to achieve this goal.
  ‘You in the media think you can tell us what we're annoyed about’ was the constant refrain.
  This is a constant refrain in the liberal press.
  Since the referendum all leaders of the European Union's mainstream parties have repeated the same refrain.
  Amongst the journalists who responded to my queries, there was a constant refrain: ‘what can I possibly do?’
  "We can't just let him starve to death, " is a common refrain heard from family members.
  We have heard the usual refrain about big companies swallowing up small ones and limiting diversity.
  Dean's emphasis on Kennedy's prudence during the Cuban missile crisis was a constant refrain of leading Democrats in late 2002.
  The constant refrain of both the corporations and their flunkeys in the union bureaucracy and the media is that there is no alternative but to comply with the agenda set by contemporary economic realities.
  Now, that's becoming almost a familiar refrain when we're talking about the Defence Department.
  In later years these words would become a familiar refrain.
  Everywhere one heard the common refrain: at last we have something to celebrate.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from refraindre 'break', based on Latin refringere 'break up' (because the refrain ‘broke’ the sequence).

refrain¹

verbrəˈfrānrəˈfreɪn

[no object]

Stop oneself from doing something.
忍住，节制
she refrained from comment
她强忍着不作评议。
Example sentencesExamples
- Since smokers appear to be unable to act in a socially responsible way by voluntarily refraining from smoking in public, it seems there must be a law.
- It seems they are refraining from labeling the people they're looking at as suspects.
- Of them all, Sainte-Beuve alone refrained from hurting me with foolish words.
- Yet, it appears that it is meticulously refraining from any extreme actions that could trigger a military showdown with the United States.
- I explained that it was for my swollen hand, politely refraining from mentioning that it was their fellow nurses who had necessitated the elusive pillow.
- I think refraining from showing the video is the right thing to do.
- Which is why, Matthew, as you explained, the U.S. is refraining from entering any of those sites during this battle.
- By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike.
- I stood motionless next to the roll of bread, refraining from moving too soon, for fear of being discovered.
- Great people, companies and institutions didn't get where they are by selling themselves short or refraining from trying something different.
- I immediately warmed to him, and told him my tale of woe, refraining from going into too much detail and being careful not to bring Captain Haddock into it.
- Among the six steps the media industry groups said the government could take was refraining from any action that may threaten freedom of expression or freedom of the press.
- One other way that the cost of living could be kept down is by Government refraining from increasing taxes of any kind.
- The serious complication of pneumothorax can be avoided by refraining from aiming the needle at an intercostal space.
- Already jittery on energy drink and party pills, they are sensibly refraining from drinking alcohol to ensure that they will be vertical for the big final act.
- Some banks are also refraining from extending loans for fear that they could harm their capital adequacy ratios.
- To avoid their after taste during dessert, we might have refrained from eating them had we noticed them sooner.
- So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis.
- Certainly, refraining from food and drink from dawn to dusk is not easy.
- The public doesn't expect praise for refraining from pogroms, but nor does it expect ceaseless injunctions to abstain from them.
Synonyms
abstain, desist, hold back, stop oneself, withhold

Origin

Middle English (in the sense ‘restrain a thought or feeling’): from Old French refrener, from Latin refrenare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + frenum ‘bridle’.

refrain²

nounrəˈfreɪnrəˈfrān

1A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse.
（诗歌中，尤指在节末）叠句；（歌曲中重复演唱，尤指在末尾）叠歌，副歌
Example sentencesExamples
- There's a 1960s poem with the constant refrain of ' Tell me lies about Vietnam '.
- Mary J Blige has even changed the refrain of the song, and sings, ‘No more war.’
- For example, round is another word for a roundelay, which is a short simple song with a refrain.
- The quatrain is followed by a couplet forming a refrain, also with four stresses.
- Even Isaiah turns preacher in our text with a sermonic refrain repeated in verses 21 and 28.
- Songs and poems must be at least two pages long, not including repeating stanzas or refrains.
- Or will the parting strains of Robbie Burns' haunting refrain convince her to come back again soon?
- Think of all the song lines, or at least refrains, we've all memorized.
- The refrain in this song is the line ‘I heard the voice of a porkchop say come unto me and rest.’
- The refrain goes, " living in the wild wild west".
- And off she went, singing a sad, sad refrain.
- At one point he then took out the aforementioned trumpet and played it with Satchmo-like raunch, singing the refrain in between the lines of melody.
- Most people will be familiar with the refrain of the song, ‘All I wanna do is have some fun.’
- These all seem to derive from the Folio text, but some may supplement it by accurately recording where breaks came between verses and refrains.
- The women sang the words, while the men sang the refrain.
- As the refrain of the country song goes, ‘O Please, Dear God, Not Another One.’
- And it gave Ice Cube a haunting refrain in one of his angriest and best tracks.
- In these ten short verses, the refrain, ‘Do not fear,’ occurs three times.
- The first song has the refrain, ‘Dark is life, is death,’ and ends with the macabre image of an ape howling in a graveyard.
- She sang a refrain; he sampled it electronically and ' sang ' it back using the keyboard.
1. 1.1 The musical accompaniment for a refrain.
  叠歌部分的音乐伴奏
  Example sentencesExamples
  Look no further than the heartbreaking lyrics and painfully sad mourning orchestral refrains of ‘I Left You’.
  Then came the haunting solo violin refrain and all the children stopped sawing away - except one.
  Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it is boring; I must, however, warn you that the melodic refrain is so soothing that, at times, you may find yourself being lulled to sleep.
  Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata.
  The melodies meander but return to touchstone refrains, and the ever-present percussion drive them onward.
  It's got a solid bass riff, punchy drums and ear-catching sampled refrains, but could use either a melody or some rapping out front to give it focus.
  I have certain musical refrains that I am purposefully repeating - in a different key, but still repeating.
  The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic refrain bordering on anarchy.
  The fast sections are extremely delightful with slow sections having wonderful melodies and tender refrains.
  Song for the Others and Borderline positively sparkle with piano refrains from the top drawer.
  The arrangements are intelligent without being fussy: tuneful refrains for cello and woodwind, beguiling motifs for piano and vibes, emotional guitar and restrained drums.
  To show this really was meant as a band effort, we then get a jaunt through Honest Plain John's ‘Psycho Girl’ with it's jangly guitar refrain and hypnotic chorus.
  Here the beat is constantly fluttered and redrawn, but somehow held together by the nearly anthemic melodic refrain.
  Musical refrains differ by virtue of the score or the performer.
  With no distractions other than a few lilting refrains from the skilled guitar of Andrew Pendlebury, the audience needs chemistry between the performers to hold their attention.
  The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory.
  The end result being that this carefully meditated montage of menacing reverb, clanking percussion and tender piano refrains establishes clear themes of late night melancholic reflection.
  As she began to play the refrain, a voice began to caress her melody.
  Jeremy Soule provides the music with an occasional refrain from John Williams' classic soundtrack.
  The elegance, the sorrow, the cadences of the language there reminds one of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with its haunting refrains.
2. 1.2 A comment or complaint that is often repeated.
  一再重复的话（或抱怨）
  “Poor Tom” had become the constant refrain of his friends
  “可怜的汤姆”已成了他朋友们的口头禅。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Since the referendum all leaders of the European Union's mainstream parties have repeated the same refrain.
  A constant refrain from Australian political parties not only in the recent election campaign but for generations has been that Australia cannot afford more money for national defence.
  Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar refrain from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership.
  For the moment, he is all but echoing the same refrain.
  Dean's emphasis on Kennedy's prudence during the Cuban missile crisis was a constant refrain of leading Democrats in late 2002.
  "We can't just let him starve to death, " is a common refrain heard from family members.
  This is a constant refrain in the liberal press.
  The constant refrain of both the corporations and their flunkeys in the union bureaucracy and the media is that there is no alternative but to comply with the agenda set by contemporary economic realities.
  ‘You in the media think you can tell us what we're annoyed about’ was the constant refrain.
  Amongst the journalists who responded to my queries, there was a constant refrain: ‘what can I possibly do?’
  This has been a constant refrain from the Bush administration.
  Everywhere one heard the common refrain: at last we have something to celebrate.
  A constant refrain in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest.
  A constant refrain is that Scotland should follow the lead set by Norway, a small, independent country made rich by direct control of its North Sea oil.
  One of the constant refrains of successive Governments in the two decades that I have been in the House has been the issue of how Governments facilitate industry development, both at the domestic and at the international level.
  Although this has been a constant refrain in the past few years, little has been done to achieve this goal.
  In later years these words would become a familiar refrain.
  We have heard the usual refrain about big companies swallowing up small ones and limiting diversity.
  Integration, integration, integration, is her constant refrain.
  Now, that's becoming almost a familiar refrain when we're talking about the Defence Department.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from refraindre ‘break’, based on Latin refringere ‘break up’ (because the refrain ‘broke’ the sequence).

单词	refrain
释义	refrain¹ verb rɪˈfreɪnrəˈfreɪn [no object] Stop oneself from doing something. 忍住，节制 she refrained from comment 她强忍着不作评议。 Example sentencesExamples Already jittery on energy drink and party pills, they are sensibly refraining from drinking alcohol to ensure that they will be vertical for the big final act. Yet, it appears that it is meticulously refraining from any extreme actions that could trigger a military showdown with the United States. To avoid their after taste during dessert, we might have refrained from eating them had we noticed them sooner. The public doesn't expect praise for refraining from pogroms, but nor does it expect ceaseless injunctions to abstain from them. Since smokers appear to be unable to act in a socially responsible way by voluntarily refraining from smoking in public, it seems there must be a law. One other way that the cost of living could be kept down is by Government refraining from increasing taxes of any kind. Great people, companies and institutions didn't get where they are by selling themselves short or refraining from trying something different. It seems they are refraining from labeling the people they're looking at as suspects. Among the six steps the media industry groups said the government could take was refraining from any action that may threaten freedom of expression or freedom of the press. Some banks are also refraining from extending loans for fear that they could harm their capital adequacy ratios. I explained that it was for my swollen hand, politely refraining from mentioning that it was their fellow nurses who had necessitated the elusive pillow. I stood motionless next to the roll of bread, refraining from moving too soon, for fear of being discovered. The serious complication of pneumothorax can be avoided by refraining from aiming the needle at an intercostal space. I think refraining from showing the video is the right thing to do. I immediately warmed to him, and told him my tale of woe, refraining from going into too much detail and being careful not to bring Captain Haddock into it. So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis. By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike. Of them all, Sainte-Beuve alone refrained from hurting me with foolish words. Which is why, Matthew, as you explained, the U.S. is refraining from entering any of those sites during this battle. Certainly, refraining from food and drink from dawn to dusk is not easy. Synonyms abstain, desist, hold back, stop oneself, withhold forbear, forgo, do without, dispense with, resist the temptation to, avoid, steer clear of, give a wide berth to, have nothing to do with, fight shy of, eschew, shun, renounce, forswear, abjure, leave alone, not touch, reject stop, cease, finish, discontinue, give up, break off, drop informal quit, leave off, kick, swear off British informal jack in archaic forsake Origin Middle English (in the sense 'restrain a thought or feeling'): from Old French refrener, from Latin refrenare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + frenum 'bridle'. Rhymes abstain, appertain, arcane, arraign, ascertain, attain, Bahrain, bane, blain, brain, Braine, Cain, Caine, campaign, cane, cinquain, chain, champagne, champaign, Champlain, Charmaine, chicane, chow mein, cocaine, Coleraine, Coltrane, complain, constrain, contain, crane, Dane, deign, demesne, demi-mondaine, detain, disdain, domain, domaine, drain, Duane, Dwane, Elaine, entertain, entrain, explain, fain, fane, feign, gain, Germaine, germane, grain, humane, Hussein, inane, Jain, Jane, Jermaine, Kane, La Fontaine, lain, lane, legerdemain, Lorraine, main, Maine, maintain, mane, mise en scène, Montaigne, moraine, mundane, obtain, ordain, Paine, pane, pertain, plain, plane, Port-of-Spain, profane, rain, Raine, reign, rein, retain, romaine, sane, Seine, Shane, Sinn Fein, skein, slain, Spain, Spillane, sprain, stain, strain, sustain, swain, terrain, thane, train, twain, Ujjain, Ukraine, underlain, urbane, vain, vane, vein, Verlaine, vicereine, wain, wane, Wayne refrain² noun rɪˈfreɪnrəˈfreɪn 1A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. （诗歌中，尤指在节末）叠句；（歌曲中重复演唱，尤指在末尾）叠歌，副歌 Example sentencesExamples She sang a refrain; he sampled it electronically and ' sang ' it back using the keyboard. For example, round is another word for a roundelay, which is a short simple song with a refrain. There's a 1960s poem with the constant refrain of ' Tell me lies about Vietnam '. Think of all the song lines, or at least refrains, we've all memorized. Songs and poems must be at least two pages long, not including repeating stanzas or refrains. The quatrain is followed by a couplet forming a refrain, also with four stresses. The refrain in this song is the line ‘I heard the voice of a porkchop say come unto me and rest.’ The women sang the words, while the men sang the refrain. Or will the parting strains of Robbie Burns' haunting refrain convince her to come back again soon? And off she went, singing a sad, sad refrain. As the refrain of the country song goes, ‘O Please, Dear God, Not Another One.’ The first song has the refrain, ‘Dark is life, is death,’ and ends with the macabre image of an ape howling in a graveyard. Even Isaiah turns preacher in our text with a sermonic refrain repeated in verses 21 and 28. Mary J Blige has even changed the refrain of the song, and sings, ‘No more war.’ And it gave Ice Cube a haunting refrain in one of his angriest and best tracks. Most people will be familiar with the refrain of the song, ‘All I wanna do is have some fun.’ In these ten short verses, the refrain, ‘Do not fear,’ occurs three times. At one point he then took out the aforementioned trumpet and played it with Satchmo-like raunch, singing the refrain in between the lines of melody. The refrain goes, " living in the wild wild west". These all seem to derive from the Folio text, but some may supplement it by accurately recording where breaks came between verses and refrains. 1.1 The musical accompaniment for a refrain. 叠歌部分的音乐伴奏 he would play the refrain Example sentencesExamples The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic refrain bordering on anarchy. To show this really was meant as a band effort, we then get a jaunt through Honest Plain John's ‘Psycho Girl’ with it's jangly guitar refrain and hypnotic chorus. The fast sections are extremely delightful with slow sections having wonderful melodies and tender refrains. Here the beat is constantly fluttered and redrawn, but somehow held together by the nearly anthemic melodic refrain. Then came the haunting solo violin refrain and all the children stopped sawing away - except one. The arrangements are intelligent without being fussy: tuneful refrains for cello and woodwind, beguiling motifs for piano and vibes, emotional guitar and restrained drums. Look no further than the heartbreaking lyrics and painfully sad mourning orchestral refrains of ‘I Left You’. With no distractions other than a few lilting refrains from the skilled guitar of Andrew Pendlebury, the audience needs chemistry between the performers to hold their attention. The elegance, the sorrow, the cadences of the language there reminds one of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with its haunting refrains. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it is boring; I must, however, warn you that the melodic refrain is so soothing that, at times, you may find yourself being lulled to sleep. The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory. The end result being that this carefully meditated montage of menacing reverb, clanking percussion and tender piano refrains establishes clear themes of late night melancholic reflection. Jeremy Soule provides the music with an occasional refrain from John Williams' classic soundtrack. Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata. I have certain musical refrains that I am purposefully repeating - in a different key, but still repeating. The melodies meander but return to touchstone refrains, and the ever-present percussion drive them onward. As she began to play the refrain, a voice began to caress her melody. Musical refrains differ by virtue of the score or the performer. Song for the Others and Borderline positively sparkle with piano refrains from the top drawer. It's got a solid bass riff, punchy drums and ear-catching sampled refrains, but could use either a melody or some rapping out front to give it focus. 1.2 A comment or complaint that is often repeated. 一再重复的话（或抱怨） ‘Poor Tom’ had become the constant refrain of his friends “可怜的汤姆”已成了他朋友们的口头禅。 Example sentencesExamples A constant refrain from Australian political parties not only in the recent election campaign but for generations has been that Australia cannot afford more money for national defence. A constant refrain in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest. For the moment, he is all but echoing the same refrain. Integration, integration, integration, is her constant refrain. One of the constant refrains of successive Governments in the two decades that I have been in the House has been the issue of how Governments facilitate industry development, both at the domestic and at the international level. A constant refrain is that Scotland should follow the lead set by Norway, a small, independent country made rich by direct control of its North Sea oil. This has been a constant refrain from the Bush administration. Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar refrain from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership. Although this has been a constant refrain in the past few years, little has been done to achieve this goal. ‘You in the media think you can tell us what we're annoyed about’ was the constant refrain. This is a constant refrain in the liberal press. Since the referendum all leaders of the European Union's mainstream parties have repeated the same refrain. Amongst the journalists who responded to my queries, there was a constant refrain: ‘what can I possibly do?’ "We can't just let him starve to death, " is a common refrain heard from family members. We have heard the usual refrain about big companies swallowing up small ones and limiting diversity. Dean's emphasis on Kennedy's prudence during the Cuban missile crisis was a constant refrain of leading Democrats in late 2002. The constant refrain of both the corporations and their flunkeys in the union bureaucracy and the media is that there is no alternative but to comply with the agenda set by contemporary economic realities. Now, that's becoming almost a familiar refrain when we're talking about the Defence Department. In later years these words would become a familiar refrain. Everywhere one heard the common refrain: at last we have something to celebrate. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from refraindre 'break', based on Latin refringere 'break up' (because the refrain ‘broke’ the sequence). verb.1 noun.1 refrain¹ verbrəˈfrānrəˈfreɪn [no object] Stop oneself from doing something. 忍住，节制 she refrained from comment 她强忍着不作评议。 Example sentencesExamples Since smokers appear to be unable to act in a socially responsible way by voluntarily refraining from smoking in public, it seems there must be a law. It seems they are refraining from labeling the people they're looking at as suspects. Of them all, Sainte-Beuve alone refrained from hurting me with foolish words. Yet, it appears that it is meticulously refraining from any extreme actions that could trigger a military showdown with the United States. I explained that it was for my swollen hand, politely refraining from mentioning that it was their fellow nurses who had necessitated the elusive pillow. I think refraining from showing the video is the right thing to do. Which is why, Matthew, as you explained, the U.S. is refraining from entering any of those sites during this battle. By refraining from criticizing other Democrats he appears more statesmanlike. I stood motionless next to the roll of bread, refraining from moving too soon, for fear of being discovered. Great people, companies and institutions didn't get where they are by selling themselves short or refraining from trying something different. I immediately warmed to him, and told him my tale of woe, refraining from going into too much detail and being careful not to bring Captain Haddock into it. Among the six steps the media industry groups said the government could take was refraining from any action that may threaten freedom of expression or freedom of the press. One other way that the cost of living could be kept down is by Government refraining from increasing taxes of any kind. The serious complication of pneumothorax can be avoided by refraining from aiming the needle at an intercostal space. Already jittery on energy drink and party pills, they are sensibly refraining from drinking alcohol to ensure that they will be vertical for the big final act. Some banks are also refraining from extending loans for fear that they could harm their capital adequacy ratios. To avoid their after taste during dessert, we might have refrained from eating them had we noticed them sooner. So refraining from torture may not always make sense on a pragmatic basis. Certainly, refraining from food and drink from dawn to dusk is not easy. The public doesn't expect praise for refraining from pogroms, but nor does it expect ceaseless injunctions to abstain from them. Synonyms abstain, desist, hold back, stop oneself, withhold Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘restrain a thought or feeling’): from Old French refrener, from Latin refrenare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + frenum ‘bridle’. refrain² nounrəˈfreɪnrəˈfrān 1A repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typically at the end of each verse. （诗歌中，尤指在节末）叠句；（歌曲中重复演唱，尤指在末尾）叠歌，副歌 Example sentencesExamples There's a 1960s poem with the constant refrain of ' Tell me lies about Vietnam '. Mary J Blige has even changed the refrain of the song, and sings, ‘No more war.’ For example, round is another word for a roundelay, which is a short simple song with a refrain. The quatrain is followed by a couplet forming a refrain, also with four stresses. Even Isaiah turns preacher in our text with a sermonic refrain repeated in verses 21 and 28. Songs and poems must be at least two pages long, not including repeating stanzas or refrains. Or will the parting strains of Robbie Burns' haunting refrain convince her to come back again soon? Think of all the song lines, or at least refrains, we've all memorized. The refrain in this song is the line ‘I heard the voice of a porkchop say come unto me and rest.’ The refrain goes, " living in the wild wild west". And off she went, singing a sad, sad refrain. At one point he then took out the aforementioned trumpet and played it with Satchmo-like raunch, singing the refrain in between the lines of melody. Most people will be familiar with the refrain of the song, ‘All I wanna do is have some fun.’ These all seem to derive from the Folio text, but some may supplement it by accurately recording where breaks came between verses and refrains. The women sang the words, while the men sang the refrain. As the refrain of the country song goes, ‘O Please, Dear God, Not Another One.’ And it gave Ice Cube a haunting refrain in one of his angriest and best tracks. In these ten short verses, the refrain, ‘Do not fear,’ occurs three times. The first song has the refrain, ‘Dark is life, is death,’ and ends with the macabre image of an ape howling in a graveyard. She sang a refrain; he sampled it electronically and ' sang ' it back using the keyboard. 1.1 The musical accompaniment for a refrain. 叠歌部分的音乐伴奏 Example sentencesExamples Look no further than the heartbreaking lyrics and painfully sad mourning orchestral refrains of ‘I Left You’. Then came the haunting solo violin refrain and all the children stopped sawing away - except one. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it is boring; I must, however, warn you that the melodic refrain is so soothing that, at times, you may find yourself being lulled to sleep. Above all, it faced the progressive movement of the civilisation of the book, enveloping discordance like the resolving refrain of a Beethoven sonata. The melodies meander but return to touchstone refrains, and the ever-present percussion drive them onward. It's got a solid bass riff, punchy drums and ear-catching sampled refrains, but could use either a melody or some rapping out front to give it focus. I have certain musical refrains that I am purposefully repeating - in a different key, but still repeating. The guitars grow increasingly reckless and discordant to match the rising edge in Lee Ranaldo's voice before bursting into an anthemic refrain bordering on anarchy. The fast sections are extremely delightful with slow sections having wonderful melodies and tender refrains. Song for the Others and Borderline positively sparkle with piano refrains from the top drawer. The arrangements are intelligent without being fussy: tuneful refrains for cello and woodwind, beguiling motifs for piano and vibes, emotional guitar and restrained drums. To show this really was meant as a band effort, we then get a jaunt through Honest Plain John's ‘Psycho Girl’ with it's jangly guitar refrain and hypnotic chorus. Here the beat is constantly fluttered and redrawn, but somehow held together by the nearly anthemic melodic refrain. Musical refrains differ by virtue of the score or the performer. With no distractions other than a few lilting refrains from the skilled guitar of Andrew Pendlebury, the audience needs chemistry between the performers to hold their attention. The plucked guitar finally overtakes the melodic refrain near the end of the piece, eventually wiping the beginning from memory. The end result being that this carefully meditated montage of menacing reverb, clanking percussion and tender piano refrains establishes clear themes of late night melancholic reflection. As she began to play the refrain, a voice began to caress her melody. Jeremy Soule provides the music with an occasional refrain from John Williams' classic soundtrack. The elegance, the sorrow, the cadences of the language there reminds one of Henryk Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 with its haunting refrains. 1.2 A comment or complaint that is often repeated. 一再重复的话（或抱怨） “Poor Tom” had become the constant refrain of his friends “可怜的汤姆”已成了他朋友们的口头禅。 Example sentencesExamples Since the referendum all leaders of the European Union's mainstream parties have repeated the same refrain. A constant refrain from Australian political parties not only in the recent election campaign but for generations has been that Australia cannot afford more money for national defence. Loyalists are likely to dismiss the criticisms as a familiar refrain from opponents who have never come to terms with his leadership. For the moment, he is all but echoing the same refrain. Dean's emphasis on Kennedy's prudence during the Cuban missile crisis was a constant refrain of leading Democrats in late 2002. "We can't just let him starve to death, " is a common refrain heard from family members. This is a constant refrain in the liberal press. The constant refrain of both the corporations and their flunkeys in the union bureaucracy and the media is that there is no alternative but to comply with the agenda set by contemporary economic realities. ‘You in the media think you can tell us what we're annoyed about’ was the constant refrain. Amongst the journalists who responded to my queries, there was a constant refrain: ‘what can I possibly do?’ This has been a constant refrain from the Bush administration. Everywhere one heard the common refrain: at last we have something to celebrate. A constant refrain in the media, for example, is that we in the West are the tireless champions of the powerless and oppressed, unbiased by self-interest. A constant refrain is that Scotland should follow the lead set by Norway, a small, independent country made rich by direct control of its North Sea oil. One of the constant refrains of successive Governments in the two decades that I have been in the House has been the issue of how Governments facilitate industry development, both at the domestic and at the international level. Although this has been a constant refrain in the past few years, little has been done to achieve this goal. In later years these words would become a familiar refrain. We have heard the usual refrain about big companies swallowing up small ones and limiting diversity. Integration, integration, integration, is her constant refrain. Now, that's becoming almost a familiar refrain when we're talking about the Defence Department. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from refraindre ‘break’, based on Latin refringere ‘break up’ (because the refrain ‘broke’ the sequence). verb.1 noun.1
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