abstinence
abstinence 英 [ˈæbstɪnəns] 美 [ˈæbstənəns]
n. 节制；节欲；戒酒；禁食
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- If you are a chocolate lover, you'll have to show great restraint when the dessert cart rolls over if you are practicing abstinence, another word for "refraining." It might take a lot of willpower not to throw yourself at the cart.
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- n. 节制；节欲；戒酒；禁食
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1. With a little abstinence, you know, my dear, in point of vegetables.
您知道，我亲爱的，只是蔬菜的数量稍稍有些节制。
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2. Such periods of abstinence were regularly punctuated with periods of alcohol abuse.
这样的戒酒期总是有规律地被酒精滥用时期打断。
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3. But now he joins in when it's necessary for business reasons and often talks and jokes about his abstinence -- and he volunteers to be the designated driver now and then as well.
但是，现在他也会处于生意的原因参加一些社交聚会，并且时常拿他的戒酒行为开玩笑，而且他还时不时地志愿为那些饮酒的人做专职司机。
- abstinence (n.) mid-14c., "forbearance in indulgence of the appetites," from Old French abstinance (earlier astenance), from Latin abstinentia "abstinence, starvation; self-restraint, integrity," abstract noun from abstinentem (nominative abstinens), present participle of 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." Especially of sexual appetites but also in Middle English of food, fighting, luxury.
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