- a comment or complaint that is often repeated经常重复的评价（或抱怨）
- Complaints about poor food in schools have become a familiar refrain.抱怨学校饭菜差已是耳熟能详的老调了。
- The protest began with a small group, but then the others took up the refrain.抗议始于一小群人，但随后其他人开始重复。
Extra Examples- I kept hearing the same refrain.我一再听到同样的老调。
- Shoppers, so the refrain goes, are never happy until they have found a bargain.正如人们常说的那样，购物者只有在买到便宜货时才会心满意足。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + refrainrefrain + verbSee full entry - the part of a song or a poem that is repeated after each verse副歌；迭歌；迭句
- The choir's sopranos took up the refrain.合唱队的女高音开始唱副歌部份。
synonym chorusTopics Musicc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + refrainrefrain + verbSee full entry Word Originnoun late Middle English: from Old French, from refraindre ‘break’, based on Latin refringere ‘break up’ (because the refrain “broke” the sequence).