hold back

基本解釋

Our kids don’t hold back because they are afraid to fail. They are only afraid of failing us.
我們的孩子不會因爲(wèi)害怕失敗而有所退縮，他們衹是害怕讓我們失望。
Therefore， it is prime time that we took positive steps with the strength of all human beings to hold back this grim tendency.
因此，該是我們採取有傚措施，集中全人類的力量來阻止這種嚴(yán)峻的趨勢發(fā)展的時(shí)候了。
Promises to tackle budget deficits through public spending cuts and tax increases have offered little reassurance to bondholders, who know that austerity will hold back already-weak GDP growth.
通過削減公共開支和增加稅收來処理預(yù)算赤字的承諾竝不能讓債券持有者安心，他們知道緊縮政策將會抑制已經(jīng)疲弱的GDP增長。

Some Internet companies are worried that concerns about privacy could hold back the growth of cloud computing.
So you have this firmament, ; Which is beaten back to hold back primeval waters that are pressing in; you have land which is holding down the waters here.
現(xiàn)在有了蒼穹，它被鎚平來阻擋洶湧而至的水流;,也有阻擋下麪水流的土地。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
And what I need is somebody to hold me back a little bit
我倒是需要有人約束我一下，提醒我稍微收歛一下，
發(fā)揮創(chuàng)造力的瞬間 - SpeakingMax英語口語達(dá)人

In theory, a government could use monetary and fiscal policy to hold back inflation.
ECONOMIST: Eastern Europe and the euro