Possess oneself
自制, 保持镇定
🧩 词语组成解析
possess
[pə'zɛs]
vt. 拥有;掌握，懂得;主宰;缠住，迷住;
sed, sid, sess, sult 表”坐”#词根助记：pos(=port向着)+sess=向有……的地方坐着 = 持有,拥有
oneself
[wʌn'sɛlf]
pron. 自己，自身;亲自，自行;其;亲手;
🗣️ 情景例句
Coffee, please.
请来点咖啡。
New brooms sweep clean.
新官上任三把火。
is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
就好像他本国语言的总词汇量和自己咿呀学语时他家庭所接纳的他的词汇量之比。