se retenir

to hold on

Si tu me retiens, je pourrai pas me dépêcher.	If you keep calling, I can't go any faster.
Je me retiens de t'apprendre comment faire.	I resist teaching you how to do it.
J'ai pas vomi, je me retiens.	I didn't throw up, I held it in.
Monsieur, euh, ça fait des heures que je me retiens.	Please, sir, can I go to the loo? I'm bursting.
Je me retiens en grande partie.	I held most of it in.
Je me retiens depuis notre rencontre.	I've been wanting to do that since the day I met you.
Et donc je me retiens à ce que dans mon coeur je ressens come étant vrai.	And so I hold on to that in my heart I feel to be true.
Je ne me retiens pas.	Oh, no. I am not doing that.
Je ne me retiens pas.	That's not what I'm doing.
Tu me retiens ?	Won't you tell me?
Je ne me retiens pas.	That's not what I'm doing. lt's not.
Pourquoi je me retiens ?	I'm not sure what's stopping me.
Pourquoi je me retiens ?	I wonder why I don't.
Mais je me retiens toujours et je pense trop.	But I always stop and think too much.
Tu ne me retiens pas, j'ai décidé de rester !	You're not keeping me here, I'm keeping me here!
Je me retiens en souvenir de notre amitié.	Well, I will restrain myself on account of our friendship.
Je me retiens de pleurer mais continue.	I'm fighting the instinct to weep, but keep going.
Rien ne me retiens ici !	There's nothing to keep me here.
Pourquoi tu me retiens ?	Why are you stopping me?
Rien ne me retiens ici !	There's nothing keeping me here.