Constraint

(noun.) the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others.

(noun.) the state of being physically constrained; 'dogs should be kept under restraint'.

校对:拉里

• But as he reflects when he is left alone, the woman has been putting no common constraint upon herself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He was too much in earnest now to feel any false constraint in speaking his mind. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I look forward, my dear, to our meeting easily and without constraint on either side. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He felt a sharp constraint. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A week elapsed, leaving us all three still in this position of secret constraint towards one another. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There being not the least constraint in his manner, there was none (or I think there was none) in mine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But she caused a constraint over Ursula's nature, a certain weariness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The tinge of constraint was beginning to be more distinctly perceptible under the friendly ease of his manner. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The name, in Loerke's mouth particularly, had been an intolerable humiliation and constraint upon her, these many days. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The constraint that had been put upon me, was quite abandoned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• She glanced shyly at Lily, asking in an embarrassed tone how she felt; Lily answered with the same constraint, and raised herself up to drink the tea. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Always a feeling of constraint came over me; always I was disposed to be stern and strange. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The stir of the pulses which his nearness always caused was increased by a slight sense of constraint. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• A true Tartarean dignity sat upon her brow, and not factitiously or with marks of constraint, for it had grown in her with years. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There is no constraint upon you, I hope. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

整理:桑娅