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词汇 abstemious
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Definition of abstemious in English:

abstemious

adjective əbˈstiːmɪəsəbˈstimiəs
  • Indulging only very moderately in something, especially food and drink.

    ‘We only had a bottle.’ ‘Very abstemious of you.’

    “我们只喝了一瓶。”“你们真有节制啊。”

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A close family member confirmed that she lived a fairly simple and abstemious life, and spent some years in a nursing home before her death in May 1998.
    • Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
    • In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
    • Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
    • There's still the same warm smile and shock of black hair, and there's clearly something to be said for her abstemious lifestyle for she looks a decade younger than it says on her birth certificate.
    • Both were abstemious by nature, but knew how to enjoy themselves and were interesting company.
    • New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
    • On the other hand, I have hardly seen any pals because they are down the pub, so my main support now is Phil, an abstemious, gay, Welsh dancer who seems quite pleased that I share one of his lifestyle choices.
    • Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive.
    • He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
    • The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.
    • There is a trend for alcohol limits to become tighter - a trend more related to the increasing sobriety of the wider political climate than to the emergence of epidemiological evidence justifying a more abstemious policy.
    • However, it was the abstemious Chartist family, the Cranstons, who really put the coffee houses' adversaries, the Glasgow tea rooms, on the map in the 1890s.
    • When he sits down to celebrate his 40th birthday next Wednesday, this most abstemious of professionals can raise a glass to himself and genuinely declare he could not have done any more or any better.
    • There is no evidence, however, that a single drinking bout in an otherwise abstemious person will lead to pancreatitis.
    • I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
    • Robinson, famed for his Christian beliefs and his abstemious lifestyle, also found time to have lunch with his mother, who still lives in Leeds.
    • Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
    • I considered a 48 hour fast, however decided that any gain that would be attained from this abstemious behaviour would be completely off-set by the onslaught of DT's that this effort would inevitably induce.
    • Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
    Synonyms
    temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate, self-disciplined, self-denying, restrained, self-restrained, non-indulgent, sober, ascetic, puritanical, spartan, strict, severe, self-abnegating, hair-shirt

Derivatives

  • abstemiously

  • adverb əbˈstiːmɪəsliəbˈstimiəsli
    • Sims abstemiously declined anything alcoholic but before she knew it ‘three Martinis were whizzing around my bloodstream’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We'd ordered a bottle of Tiefenbrunner Pinot Grigio 2001 for €21 from a range of interesting and well priced new and old world wines, which we managed to sip abstemiously for the entire meal.
      • You see him sip abstemiously, after using the small reading glasses he keeps in his pocket to read the label.
      • The Cardinal lived abstemiously in a top-floor apartment, worked on his memoirs and a history of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary.
      • They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.
  • abstemiousness

  • noun əbˈstiːmɪəsnəsəbˈstimiəsnəs
    • That is not to suggest that I am a model of abstemiousness who has never made an idiot of himself after five too many.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
      • He does not seem to smoke or drink, although he has downplayed his abstemiousness since joining the drinks group.
      • Jake made up for any parental abstemiousness though.
      • We only had four bottles of wine - due to the wine service rather than any abstemiousness on our part.
      Synonyms
      temperance, abstinence, austerity, moderation, plain/simple living, self-discipline, self-denial, renunciation, restraint, self-restraint, self-deprivation, sobriety, asceticism, puritanism, severity, self-abnegation, continence

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin abstemius, (from ab- 'from' + a word related to temetum 'alcoholic drink') + -ous.

Definition of abstemious in US English:

abstemious

adjectiveəbˈstēmēəsəbˈstimiəs
  • Not self-indulgent, especially when eating and drinking.

    (尤指吃和喝)有节制的

    “We only had a bottle.” “Very abstemious of you.”

    “我们只喝了一瓶。”“你们真有节制啊。”

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A close family member confirmed that she lived a fairly simple and abstemious life, and spent some years in a nursing home before her death in May 1998.
    • There is a trend for alcohol limits to become tighter - a trend more related to the increasing sobriety of the wider political climate than to the emergence of epidemiological evidence justifying a more abstemious policy.
    • I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
    • Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
    • There is no evidence, however, that a single drinking bout in an otherwise abstemious person will lead to pancreatitis.
    • Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive.
    • I considered a 48 hour fast, however decided that any gain that would be attained from this abstemious behaviour would be completely off-set by the onslaught of DT's that this effort would inevitably induce.
    • The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.
    • Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
    • He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
    • Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
    • On the other hand, I have hardly seen any pals because they are down the pub, so my main support now is Phil, an abstemious, gay, Welsh dancer who seems quite pleased that I share one of his lifestyle choices.
    • There's still the same warm smile and shock of black hair, and there's clearly something to be said for her abstemious lifestyle for she looks a decade younger than it says on her birth certificate.
    • However, it was the abstemious Chartist family, the Cranstons, who really put the coffee houses' adversaries, the Glasgow tea rooms, on the map in the 1890s.
    • In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
    • When he sits down to celebrate his 40th birthday next Wednesday, this most abstemious of professionals can raise a glass to himself and genuinely declare he could not have done any more or any better.
    • New England in the 19th century was the apex of conformity: staid, stuffy and abstemious.
    • Robinson, famed for his Christian beliefs and his abstemious lifestyle, also found time to have lunch with his mother, who still lives in Leeds.
    • Both were abstemious by nature, but knew how to enjoy themselves and were interesting company.
    • Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
    Synonyms
    temperate, abstinent, austere, moderate, self-disciplined, self-denying, restrained, self-restrained, non-indulgent, sober, ascetic, puritanical, spartan, strict, severe, self-abnegating, hair-shirt

Origin

Early 17th century: from Latin abstemius, (from ab- ‘from’ + a word related to temetum ‘alcoholic drink’) + -ous.

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