While I thought you could not help yourself, as it were, I refrained from saying it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Next day you had my secret at your mercy, but you nobly refrained from pursuing your advantage. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯回忆录.
More than that it did not do, for she refrained even from ascending the bank and looking over. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
You would have it that such was the case, and I refrained from contradiction. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Even had you felt careless about your own affliction, you might have refrained from singing out of sheer pity for mine. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I refrained from alarming the house, and telling everybody what had happened--as I ought to have done. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Dorothea refrained from saying what was in her mind--how well she knew that there might be invisible barriers to speech between husband and wife. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But he did not hint to me that when I had been better looking he had had this same proceeding in his thoughts and had refrained from it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Emma was gratified, to observe such a proof in her of strengthened character, and refrained from any allusion that might endanger its maintenance. 简·奥斯汀.爱玛.
I refrained from pressing the question. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Dreadful imaginings occurred to Eustacia, but she carefully refrained from uttering them to her husband. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
He was very solemn and refrained from talking. 欧内斯特·海明威.永别了,武器.