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1·Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a life.

罗莎总是不断重复的一句话就是她生活得很无聊。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·When breaking in an engine, you should refrain from high speeds for the first thousand miles.

磨合发动机时,你应当避免在最初的1千英里高速行驶。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

3·Following the Harvard scandal, Mary Miller, the former dean of students at Yale, made an impassioned appeal to her school's professors to refrain from take-home exams.

哈佛丑闻发生之后，耶鲁大学前学生事务主任玛丽·米勒慷慨激昂地呼吁教授避免学生在家考试。

4·Complaints about poor food in schools have become a familiar refrain.

抱怨学校饭菜差已是耳熟能详的老调了。《牛津词典》

5·You hear the refrain all the time.

你总是听到这样的叠句。

6·There is no bullying at this school has been a common refrain, almost certainly untrue.

“这所学校没有霸凌现象”是一个常见的说法，几乎可以肯定是不真实的。

7·All religions have certain days when people refrain from eating and excessive eating is one of Christianity's seven deadly sins.

在所有宗教中，人们都在某些特定的日子不吃东西，过量饮食是基督教的七宗大罪之一。

8·Can you refrain from laughter, my friends?

各位不要大笑，好吗？《新英汉大辞典》

9·How shall I refrain from tears when we part?

我们分手时，我怎么能抑制住眼泪？《新英汉大辞典》

10·I made a terrific effort to refrain from tears.

我狠着心把泪止住。《新英汉大辞典》

避免

1·( we've got nothing that works went the refrain.) I noticed in your piece you mentioned Jobs seemed to eschew chemo; would he have had a choice?

我注意到你一直提到乔布斯似乎想避免化疗，他能选择不进行化疗吗？

2·Most nations with strong currencies should refrain from following its lead.

大多数拥有强势货币的国家都应避免重蹈其覆辙。

3·It is important to refrain from sending unloving thoughts to people no matter how they treat you.

不管人们如何对待你，千万避免送给人们不是爱的想法。

4·It is important to refrain from sending unloving thoughts to people, no matter how they treat you.

不管人们如何对待你，千万避免送给人们不是爱的想法。

5·We hope relevant parties will exercise calm and restraint and refrain from actions that exacerbate tensions in the region, Qin said.

秦刚说：“我们希望有关各方保持平静与克制，避免该地区的紧张局势进一步升级。”

重复

1·Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a life.

罗莎总是不断重复的一句话就是她生活得很无聊。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·So goes the refrain as his finger skips from building to building, each flashier than the next, and few of them more than barely occupied.

当他的手指滑过一栋更比一栋华丽的建筑物，他不断重复着这种描述，建筑物大多都空空如也。

3·That refrain always comes after those kinds of statements.

这种称呼的重复总是出现在这一类陈述之后。

4·Further research is needed is a common refrain, though this is the sort of thing that will work itself out over the next decade as more, um, data become available.

“更深层次的研究的需要”是普遍的重复，然而这却是那种在十年后自己就能够解答出来的事情，呃…材料就可以利用了。

5·Don't be so sure. It has become a constant refrain at U.N. headquarters that the Security Council is anachronistic.

不要那么肯定在联合国总部，安理会落伍已经成为不断重复的论调。

副歌

1·The refrain of the album's opening track - They tried to make me go to rehab, I said 'no no no' -sounded at once like an ironic comment on celebrity excesses and a straight bit of autobiography.

这张专辑第一支歌曲的副歌——“他们试图让我去戒毒所，我说‘不不不’”——乍一听，就让人感觉这是对过分追逐名利的讽刺，也像是是她坦率的自我生活写照。

2·Or perhaps it's a pulsating refrain from Aerosmith's classic rock song Love in an Elevator, reminding you of well, you get the idea.

又或许是来自于史密斯飞船的摇滚歌曲“在电梯中相爱”，带着极其兴奋的副歌同时提醒你，你应该想起来了。

3·Stick to your own kind, goes the West Side Story refrain, a phenomenon that sociologists call homophily: love of the same.

“坚持你自己的种类”，这是“西边的故事”中的副歌部分，描述了一种被社会学家称之为“同质性”的现象，即同样的爱。

4·And now Get crunk, as I was aware from having heard it before, involves the consistent refrain of Get crunk Extremely bad word, Get crunk Extremely bad word, and so I said no.

我之前在听“玩旷课乐吧”时就发现，这首歌的副歌部分包含了，连续的不和谐歌词，因此我说“不行”。

5·Bankers now look at longtime customers and think of that old refrain from a failed marriage: I feel like I don't even know you.

银行家们盯着自己的老主顾，脑子了转着描述婚姻失败的副歌：“我好像一点都不记得你了。”

克制

1·They hoped Canadians would understand their desire to protect a threatened language and culture, and refrain from interfering in internal Mohawk affairs.

酋长们希望加拿大人能够理解其保护已受到威胁的语言和文化的愿望，保持克制，不干预莫霍克人的内部事务。

2·He tried very hard to refrain himself from smoking.

他费了很大的劲儿才克制住自己不抽烟。

3·They do things that give them satisfaction and a sense of self-worth and refrain from actions that bring self-censure.

他们在做事中获得满足和实现自我价值，同时克制自我谴责的行为。

4·Let's hope they will refrain (from hostile action).

希望他们能克制(不采取敌对行动)。

叠句

1·They all sang the refrain.

他们齐声合唱叠句。

2·Refrain makes the poetry beautiful.

叠句让诗歌更优美。

3·They are metaphoric, almost like dreams, with the device of repetition used like a refrain or a chorus for both thematic emphasis and internal rhythm.

梦境般的隐喻，加以合唱或叠句般的反复回荡，作为主题的增强和内在的节奏。

节制

1·You must refrain your food and drink.

你必须节制你的饮食了。

忍

1·I do it invariably, even though the minute before I have been recalling a hundred reasons that should make me refrain: it is some devil that urges me to thwart my own schemes by killing him.

就是一分钟之前我还想出一百条理由使我忍下去，我也一定还是这样作：是有魔鬼逼着我去杀掉他，好打乱我自己的计划。

(1)refrain from克制；抑制；忍住