temperance
发音
英 [ˈtempərəns]
美 [ˈtempərəns]
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- n.
- 节制(尤指饮食),节欲
- 戒酒
单词词源
temperance 自我节制,克制,克己
来自 temper,管控,调节,-ance,名词后缀。引申词义自我节制,克制等。
双语例句
- 1. America also has a long tradition of temperance .
- 美国同样也有着漫长的禁酒史。
- 2. During prohibition teetotaling temperance activists asserted this belief citing it among the dangers of drink .
- 在禁酒期间,绝对的禁酒主义的活动家们更是坚信着这种信念,大肆地宣扬喝酒的危害。
- 3. In the 1924 ontario prohibition plebiscite ontarians voted narrowly , by a margin of 51.5 % to 48.5 % , to retain the ontario temperance act .
- 在1924年,安大略省禁酒令在省民投票仅以从51.5%到48.5%的幅度得以保留。
- 4. Temperance eat not to dullness ; drink not to elevation .
- 1节制食不过多以防萎靡,饮不过量以防亢奋。
- 5. Mr norquist is the pugnacious founder of americans for tax reform ( atr ) , a mighty pressure group that deems taxes no less of an evil than alcohol was in the eyes of the 19th-century temperance movements .
- 诺奎斯特先生是支持税改美国人(atr)英勇好斗的创始人,该组织对征税非常抵触,就像19世纪禁酒运动者对待酒精那样。