遏制 èzhì to check
to check; to contain; to hold back; to keep within limits; to constrain; to restrain
How to remember 遏制: 遏 to curb + 制 system = to check.
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How it is used
- 'To check, curb, contain' something spreading or rising - 遏制疫情蔓延 (èzhì yìqíng mànyán) curb the spread of the epidemic; 遏制通胀 (èzhì tōngzhàng) rein in inflation.
- Formal; objects are trends, forces, emotions - things pushing outward that you hold back.
- Compare 抑制 (yìzhì, suppress/restrain, incl. one's own feelings); 遏制 leans toward stopping an external threat or momentum.
Example sentences
- 我无法遏制住我的怒火。 Wǒ wúfǎ èzhì zhù wǒ de nùhuǒ.I couldn't control my anger.