If you restrain someone, you stop them from doing what they intended or wanted to do, usually by using your physical strength.
例句
Wally gripped my arm, partly to restrain me and partly to reassure me...沃利抓住我的手臂，一是想制止我，二是想穩住我。One onlooker had to be restrained by police.一個旁觀者遭到了警察的制止。
VERB
克制(情緒);抑制（自己）
If you restrain an emotion or you restrain yourself from doing something, you prevent yourself from showing that emotion or doing what you wanted or intended to do.
例句
She was unable to restrain her desperate anger...她無法控制自己極度的憤怒。Unable to restrain herself, she rose and went to the phone...她沒能克制住自己，起身走向電話。
VERB
抑制;限制;控制
To restrain something that is growing or increasing means to prevent it from getting too large.
例句
The radical 500-day plan was very clear on how it intended to try to restrain inflation...這個為期500天的激進計劃明確闡明將如何控制通貨膨脹。In the 1970s, the government tried to restrain corruption.在20世紀70年代，政府曾經試圖打擊腐敗。