temperance
英 [ˈtempərəns] 美 [ˈtɛmpərəns, ˈtɛmprəns]

n.

节制（尤指饮食），节欲；戒酒；

英英释义

temperance[ 'tempərəns ]

• n.
  • the trait of avoiding excesses

    同义词：moderation

  • abstaining from excess

    同义词：sobriety

  • the act of tempering

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. Temperance is the best physic.
   节欲是灵丹妙药。
2. The temperance league wanted to close all the saloons in town.
   禁酒联合会要关闭镇上所有的酒吧。
3. In the temperance question, Mr White takes his stand on total abstinence.
   在戒酒问题上，怀特先生是主张完全戒掉。
4. Temperance is the greatest of virtues.
   自我节制是最大的美德。
5. The patient had to practice temperance in eating and drinking.
   这个病人不得不节制饮食。

权威例句

American Temperance Movements: Cycles of Reform by Jack S. Blocker,
The alcohol problem in America: from temperance to alcoholism.
Temperance board registration for alcohol abuse in a national sample of Swedish male twins, born 1902 to 1949
Symbolic crusade: Status politics and the American temperance movement.
Reforming the self and the other: The temperance movement and the duality of modern subjectivity
Woman's World, Woman's Empire: The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930
Woman and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty, 1873-1900. By Ruth Bordin. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981. xvii...
Latent class analysis of temperance board registrations in Swedish male-male twin pairs born 1902 to 1949: searching for subtypes of...
Allies on The Road to Victory: Coalition Formation Between the Suffragists and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. By Barbara Leslie Epstein. (Middletown...