rein

英[reɪn]美[reɪn]

n.驾驭（法），统治手段，控制（权），缰绳；

复数：reins;

例句

You must learn to rein in your temper.你必须学会控制你的脾气.

You must rein in your temper.你一定要捺住火气.

Give free rein to your imagination.你可以完全自由地运用你的想像力.

Mary spoiled both her children, then tried too late to rein them in.玛丽惯坏了她的两个孩子，想要管束他们的时候已经来不及了。

The horse answered to the slightest pull on the rein.只要缰绳轻轻一拉,马就作出反应.

We should give a freer rein to small and medium state - owned enterprises to invigorate themselves.进一步放开搞活 国有 中小企业.

If he values your work, he may rein in his abusiveness.如果他看重你的工作, 他会对自己的谩骂有所收敛的.

Her parents had kept her on a tight rein with their narrow and inflexible views.她的父母观念狭隘而僵化，对她管束很严。

The government continued to believe it should give free rein to the private sector in transport.*府仍然认为应该给予交通领域的私营企业以经营自由。

英语六级真题

Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

They are also hoping the court's ruling will rein in patent law, which is increasingly being used to claim new life forms as private property.

This case gives the court an opportunity to rein in the growing use of patents to protect genetically engineered crops and other life forms―but the court may well use it to give this trend a powerful new endorsement

To avoid fiscal (财*) meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severely and taxes may have to go up.

missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in malpractice costs.

They're still constrained by funders, launch providers and a series of regulations-all of which rein in what CubeSat developers can and cannot do.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-PLURAL

(马的)缰绳

Reins are the thin leather straps attached round a horse's neck which are used to control the horse.

N-PLURAL

(新闻用语)支配权，控制权

Journalists sometimes use the expression the reins or the reins of power to refer to the control of a country or organization.

例句

PHRASE

放任;不管;纵容

If you give free rein to someone, you give them a lot of freedom to do what they want.

例句

PHRASE

严加控制;严格管束

If you keep a tight rein on someone, you control them firmly.

例句

英汉词典释义

n.

缰, 缰绳

控制手段,主宰；掌管

（成人带着幼儿走路以防其走失时用的）保护带

vt.

勒缰绳使(马)停步, 驾驭

严格控制；加强管理

英英词典释义

Noun

1. one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse

2. any means of control;

Verb

1. control and direct with or as if by reins;

2. stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins;

3. stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins;

4. keep in check;

行业词典

体育： 雪橇绳；缰绳；