| 单词 |
self-control |
| 释义 |
self-conˈtrol
[self- 1 a.]
1. Control of oneself, one's desires, etc.
1711Shaftesbury Charac. III. 260 note, The Perfection of Virtue is from long Art and Management, Self-Controul. 1799Wordsw. Ruth 154 A Man who without self-control Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires. 1832Tennyson Œnone 142 Selfreverence, selfknowledge, selfcontrol. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xxxix, As if all self-control had forsaken him, [he] grasped Adam's arm.
2. Self-government. rare.
1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 26 If it be not only an independent but a national church, the right of self-control is one that it cannot part with without disloyalty.
Hence self-conˈtrolled, -conˈtrolling adjs.
1875Manning Mission Holy Ghost viii. 210 The human frame, so strong, so dignified, so *self-controlled in its perfections.
1835Lytton Rienzi i. iv, The deep and *self-controlling mind of Adrian. 1873Spencer Study Sociol. vi. 131 A comparatively self-controlling nature, capable of sacrificing present ease to future good. |
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