abstinence 的定义
- forbearance from any indulgence of appetite, especially from the use of alcoholic beverages: total abstinence.
- any self-restraint, self-denial, or forbearance.
- Economics. the conserving of current income in order to build up capital or savings.
- the state of being without a drug, as alcohol or heroin, on which one is dependent.
abstinence 近义词
restraint from desires, especially physical desires
更多abstinence例句
- In the 12-step world, members who have maintained continuous abstinence for many years are revered—the longer their time away from alcohol and other drugs, the higher their status tends to be.
- Promoting abstinence won’t work because many young people who plan to abstain don’t actually do so.
- In fact, the only scientifically proven method to avoid a hangover is moderate alcohol consumption or good old abstinence.
- Although the book contains some decidedly pre-coronavirus guidance — think advice on parties and bars — it’s at its strongest when talking about the inside game of abstinence.
- Public health experts often advocate a harm reduction approach for behaviors where abstinence is not feasible – it’s a way to minimize but not eliminate risk.
- We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
- Worse, some schools preach abstinence only or offer little to no sexual education.
- Dr. Melson says abstinence only training shows no delay in sexual activity.
- Meanwhile, the majority of states require sex educators to stress abstinence.
- Also known as The Abstinence-Violation Effect, some individuals can feel an overall loss of control after going off the deep-end.
- “Abstinence has its drawbacks,” he said, shivering in the bitter wind which whirled the stinging smoke about them.
- I—perhaps— His hand closed over her fingers with the nervous tension that these last days of abstinence had brought him.
- Cooked in the ashes, it makes a palatable but tough cake, which we enjoyed after our long abstinence from bread.
- It is abstinence from evil quite as much as eager realization of good.
- Convalescence from a severe sickness is a just cause for sexual abstinence.