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Перевод: abstinence

[существительное]
воздержание; трезвенность ; умеренность

Тезаурус:

1. I backed away in alarm and refused to touch it, so Sean made up for my abstinence.
2. Total abstinence from any sweeteners can cure a sweet tooth permanently - which is much better in the long term.
3. Abstinence, abstemiousness and a carefully controlled diet keep them in one piece.
4. "Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder."
5. There was a strong total abstinence element in the later Junior CE as well.
6. Watford drew a crowd of 7,500 to Turnfurlong Lane in 1951 and, by the time Gould broke a 34-year abstinence, plans were being formulated to turn the evocatively named ground into a housing estate.
7. Was he light-headed, despite his second stomach, after several years of abstinence?
8. Typical examples of the kinds of ritual practices that are commonly observed include: (i) dietary and sexual abstinence before hunting, (ii) visionary experiences induced by drugs or fasting, (iii) ritual purification of hunter and weapons before hunting, (iv) offering of formal apology/excuse to the slain animal - blame-shifting, (v) offering of tokens of appeasement - food, tobacco, etc. - to the slain animal, (vi) ceremonial treatment of carcass - verbal flattery and solemnity, (vii) rules determining who may eat animals' flesh (which may include abstention by hunter and/or his entire kin group), (viii) avoidance of waste, (ix) avoidance of boasting, (x) ritual disposal of uneatable or unusable remains, and (xi) post-hunting purification of the hunter and/or his weapons (see e.g. Frazer, 1922; Hallowell, 1926; Benedict, 1929; Speck, 1977; Campbell, 1984; Serpell, 1986).
9. The superiority of virginity and sexual abstinence over marriage was generally taken for granted.
10. The establishment of specific, graded and realistically achievable goals for the elderly drinker is important, goals which will hopefully result in eventual abstinence.
11. The working-class Protestants who totter back from the Twelfth field, obviously drunk but still marching behind a "Total Abstinence Lodge" banner, will continue to be annoyed by the evangelical ideologues, but will respect the fact that the evangelicals' hearts are in the right place.
12. Or take the old woman who is really a slave to the Gluttony of Delicacy but thinks she is the very model of abstinence: She is a positive terror to hostesses and servants.