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inhibition

noun
🔊/ˌɪnhɪˈbɪʃn/, 🔊/ˌɪnɪˈbɪʃn/
🔊/ˌɪnhɪˈbɪʃn/, 🔊/ˌɪnɪˈbɪʃn/
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  1. [countable, uncountable] a shy or nervous feeling that stops you from expressing your real thoughts or feelings拘谨；拘束感
    • The children were shy at first, but soon lost their inhibitions.孩子们起初很羞涩，但很快就放开了。🔊🔊
    • She had no inhibitions about making her opinions known.她敢于公开地谈论自己的想法。🔊🔊
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    • They had no inhibitions about voicing their feelings.他们在表达自己感受方面毫无顾忌。
    • Young children will participate in a drama class without inhibition.小孩子参加戏剧班往往毫不拘谨。
    • an inhibition against certain behaviour对某种行为的约束
    Topics Feelingsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + inhibition
    • have (no)
    • show (no)
    • lose
    • …
    preposition
    • without inhibition
    • inhibition about
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  2. [uncountable] (formal) the act of limiting or preventing a process or an action阻止；抑制；禁止
    • the inhibition of growth对生长的抑制
    3. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘forbidding, a prohibition’): from Latin inhibitio(n-), from the verb inhibere ‘hinder’, from in- ‘in’ + habere ‘hold’.