abstentious

释义

adj.

有节制的

在例句中理解 2 句

1. They are abstemious and abstain from most of the modern things that other English people, who are now rarely abstentious, enjoy.

   他们生活节俭，有意避开其他英国人所享用的大部分现代产品。现代生活节俭的英国人实属罕见。

2. But his abstentious parishioners, who could accept abstention from all alcohol, could not abstain from living without owning people.

   然而他的有节制的教区居民们，虽可以接受戒酒，却不能在生活中戒掉不拥有人。