abstain是什么意思_abstain怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

abstain: abstain: [14] The literal meaning of this word’s ultimate source, Latin abstinēre, was ‘hold or keep away’, and hence ‘withhold’ (the root verb, tenēre, produced many other derivatives in English, such as contain, maintain, obtain, and retain, as well as tenacious, tenant, tenement, tenet, tenor, and tenure).

That is how it was used when it was first introduced into English (via Old French abstenir), and it was not until the 16th century that it began to be used more specifically for refraining from pleasurable activities, particularly the drinking of alcohol. The past participial stem of the Latin verb, abstent-, gave us abstention, while the present participial stem, abstinent-, produced abstinent and abstinence.

There is no connection, incidentally, with the semantically similar abstemious, which comes from a Latin word for alcoholic drink, tēmōtum.
abstain (v.): late 14c., "to withhold oneself," from Old French abstenir (14c.), earlier astenir (13c.) "hold (oneself) back, refrain, abstain (from), practice abstinence," from Latin abstinere "withhold, keep back, keep off," from ab(s)- "from, away from" (see ab-) + tenere "to hold" (see tenet). Specifically of liquor, late 14c. Of voting, 1796. Related: Abstained; abstaining.

词态变化

第三人称单数 abstains;
过去式 abstained;
过去分词 abstained;
现在分词 abstaining;

1. They say it would be political suicide for the party to abstain.: 他们说这个政党弃权无异于自毁政治前程。

abandon

desert

forbear

prohibit

refrain

abstain from 戒除,避开,对…弃权

abstain from pleading 放弃申辩权

abstain from an act 【法】不作为

maintain railways 养路

air raid 空袭

brain drainer 外流的人才

raise Cain 惹乱子,胡闹;发火,恼怒;狂欢,狂饮

Taiwan Strait n. 台湾海峡

air curtain 风幕，气幕，空气帘，空气屏障

air drain 出气口，通风道，通气沟，通气管

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1. abs- + -tain.
2. => keep away, keep off.