学个词 Learn a Word-VOA英语教学 3228 refrain

 今天我们要学的词是 refrain.

 

refrain 的意思是避免、节制。President Trump¹ has been publicly calling on the Federal Reserve to refrain from raising interest rates. 特朗普总统一直公开呼吁美联储不要加息。

 

Dozens of human rights groups released an open letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, asking him to discontinue “Project Dragonfly” and to refrain from launching a censored² search engine in China. 数十个人权组织向谷歌首席执行官皮查伊发布了一封公开信，要求他停止“蜻蜓计划”，不要在中国推出受到审查的搜索引擎。

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 censored   

受审查的，被删剪的

参考例句：

• The news reports had been heavily censored . 这些新闻报道已被大幅删剪。
• The military-backed government has heavily censored the news. 有军方撑腰的政府对新闻进行了严格审查。