And she, restraining the desire to complain about housework, would respond, "Husband, I am glad!" (Para. 14)
restrain: vt. prevent from doing something; hold back
He could not restrain his intense wish to speak to her. 他抑制不住想和她說話的強(qiáng)烈愿望。
Children must be restrained from doing wrong until they are old enough to make their own moral decisions. 在孩子們尚未長大到可以自己判斷是非之前,要管好他們不讓他們做錯事。
Prisoners are sometimes restrained from writing to their families. 有時候不允許囚犯寫信回家。
v. 預(yù)防,防止