Word · 単語
思いとどまる
Reading おもいとどまる
to give up (an idea or plan)
to give up (an idea or plan) · to abandon · to refrain from (doing) · to change one's mind
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
怒鳴りつけたかったが思いとどまった。
He was about to explode, but checked himself.
私は彼女にスキーを思いとどまらせた。
I argued her out of going skiing.
私の両親は私が一人旅するのを思いとどまらせた。
My parents discouraged me from traveling alone.
彼女は初めての小説を出版するのを思いとどまった。
She was discouraged from publishing her first novel.
彼らは彼女が長い髪を切ることを思いとどまらせた。
They dissuaded her from cutting her long hair.