abstain
abstain 英 [əbˈsteɪn] 美 [æbˈsten, əb-]
vi. 自制；放弃；避免
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- If you abstain from something, you restrain yourself from consuming it. People usually abstain from things that are considered vices — like drinking alcohol or eating chocolate.
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- vi. 自制；放弃；避免
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1. Should meat-eating Christians abstain from eating animals at church events out of respect for vegetarian Christians who believe that supporting factory farming is wrong?
教会聚会时，食肉的基督徒是否应出于对食素基督徒的尊重放弃吃肉，因后者认为支持工厂化养殖是错误的？
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2. If the prospect of hooking up when parents are within earshot makes you cringe, then you should probably abstain — or stay at a hotel, where you'll have privacy.
如果父母可能听到动静，这样的估计让你有所畏缩的话那你就很有可能应当放弃这次行动——或者呆在一个你能拥有私密空间的旅馆里。
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3. If you abstain, you should feel good about your choice.
如果你选择无性生活，你应该为自己高兴。
- abstain (v.) late 14c., late 14c., "avoid (something); refrain (oneself) from; keep free from sin or vice; live austerely, practice abstinence or asceticism; be sexually continent," from Old French abstiner, abstenir (14c.), earlier astenir (13c.) "hold (oneself) back, refrain voluntarily, abstain (from what satisfies the passions), practice abstinence," from Latin abstinere/abstenere "withhold, keep back, keep off," from assimilated form of ab "off, away from" (see ab-) + tenere "to hold," from PIE root *ten- "to stretch." Specifically of liquor from late 14c. Meaning "refrain from voting" is from 1796. Related: Abstained; abstaining.
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