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con.straintkEn5streIntnsomething which controls what you do by keeping you within particular limits约束，限制The constraints of politeness wouldn't allow her to say what she really thought about the dinner he had prepared. [C]出于礼貌，她不会说出对他做的晚餐的真实看法。Living with a roommate imposed constraints on her--she couldn't play her trumpet or have parties late at night. [C]和别人共处一室使她感到约束----她不能吹喇叭，也不能把晚会开得很晚。The financial constraints on the company mean that they are not employing new staff. [C]该公司的财政限制意味着他们不会再雇新的员工。(fml) Constraint is also used to describe the type of awkward behaviour which is sometimes the result of forcing yourself to act in a particular way.克制，抑制She tried to appear friendly and natural but her constraint was obvious. [U]她尽力显得友好自然，但很明显她是克制自己。If you do something under constraint you do it only because you have been forced to.迫于压力，在强制下They confessed the truth but only under constraint.他们只是迫于压力才说出了真相。
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