- [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。
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc2They 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
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + inhibition- have (no)
- show (no)
- lose
- …
- without inhibition
- inhibition about
- [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
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘forbidding, a prohibition’): from Latin inhibitio(n-), from the verb inhibere ‘hinder’, from in- ‘in’ + habere ‘hold’.