abstaining

英 [əbˈsteɪnɪŋ]

美 [əbˈsteɪnɪŋ]

v.  (投票时)弃权; 戒; 戒除; 离开; 回避　
abstain的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 戒绝；抑制
  If youabstain fromsomething, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  1. Abstain from sex or use condoms...
     禁绝性事或使用安全套。
  2. Do you drink alcohol, smoke, or abstain?
     你喝酒抽烟吗，还是烟酒不沾？
• VERB （投票时）弃权
  If youabstainduring a vote, you do not use your vote.
  1. Three Conservative MPs abstained in the vote.
     三位保守党下院议员投了弃权票。

双语例句

• Are you abstaining, Mr Smith?
  您弃权吗，史密斯先生？
• The devout settlers at Plymouth Rock mostly recognized "giving of thanks" in the form of prayer and abstaining from food.
  定居在普利茅斯岩虔诚的清教徒更相信祈祷和禁食才是表示感恩的方式。
• He changed from voting against to abstaining.
  他原打算投反对票，后来改为弃权了。
• Over the years, she's shown her devotion by abstaining from meat and praying to buddha.
  她长年吃斋念佛，可诚心了。
• He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.
  他使出超人的自制力克制自己，才没有送他的命，可是他终于喘不过气来，罢手了，又把那显然已无生气的身体拖到高背椅子旁边。
• By abstaining from such actions, one allows the mind to quiet down sufficiently in order to proceed further.
  透过持戒心得以充分地平静下来，以便能好好执行观察的任务。
• As you cease to give your dreams for a good job that provides well by abstaining from watching the media, you will then be more likely to manifest such a circumstance in your own life experience.
  当你通过禁绝自己看媒体而停止再将你回报丰厚的好工作的梦想送出时，你将然后更有可能在你自身的生活中显化这样一个际遇。
• Having more than one drink a day, however, offered no protection against dementia compared with abstaining, the report indicates.
  报告指出，每天饮酒超过一杯和不喝酒一样，对预防痴呆症起不到作用。
• All carbonated beverages can be a problem, so the authors recommend abstaining completely to avoid acid reflux.
  所有的碳酸饮料都会成为问题，因此笔者在此建议各位还是少喝为妙。
• There were six votes in favor, two against and two abstaining.
  六票赞成，两票反对，两票弃权。