hold back

基本解释

Our kids don’t hold back because they are afraid to fail. They are only afraid of failing us.
我们的孩子不会因为害怕失败而有所退缩，他们只是害怕让我们失望。
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，该是我们采取有效措施，集中全人类的力量来阻止这种严峻的趋势发展的时候了。
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.
通过削减公共开支和增加税收来处理预算赤字的承诺并不能让债券持有者安心，他们知道紧缩政策将会抑制已经疲弱的GDP增长。

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.
现在有了苍穹，它被锤平来阻挡汹涌而至的水流;,也有阻挡下面水流的土地。
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And what I need is somebody to hold me back a little bit
我倒是需要有人约束我一下，提醒我稍微收敛一下，
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In theory, a government could use monetary and fiscal policy to hold back inflation.
ECONOMIST: Eastern Europe and the euro