Japanese

することを控える
― 我慢できない―――たばこを吸はなくてはならない; 彼女はその悲しい光景を見ることを避けることができなかった

English

abstain from doing
― I can't help myself--I have to smoke; She could not help watching the sad spectacle

_{wangwenjie (2016-09-27 08:02:09)}

Oddly, Oxford Dictionaries Online's definition is "Cannot or could not avoid.", which seems to be the opposite; other dictionaries, however, concur with our definition (restrain, abstain, etc). I suspect the dictionary actually meant to define the phrase "cannot help" (Cambridge dictionaries has a section for this phrase)