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Abstinent describes someone who is living the practice of not having something they might otherwise enjoy — most often alcohol, often sex, and in religious life sometimes food for a time. It is the person-word that sits beside abstinence, the practice-word. Doctors and recovery groups say “she has been abstinent for a year”; that is careful health English, not playground English. A teenager would more likely say “I don’t drink” or “we’re not doing that.” You can, more rarely, use abstinent as a noun for such a person, but it sounds old and stiff; today it is almost always an adjective. Though actually, it looks like a twin of , and they are not twins. Abstinent is closer to “none of this, for now or for good.” is closer to “only a little.” Listeners will often guess alcohol if you do not say what the person is staying away from.
戒酒的、禁慾的、在齋戒的
組成From Middle English and Old French abstinent, from Latin abstinēns, the “-ing” form of abstineō “to withhold.” Same family as abstain. The rarer noun use grew out of the adjective.
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- abstainthe verb this comes from
- abstinencethe noun for the practice
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Abstinentnoun/ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t/
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historicalChristianityOne of a Christian sect that appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd century, and practised abstinence from meat and sex.
abstinentadj詞源 1/ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t/
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Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite.
- Be abstinent; shew not the corruption of thy generation: he that feeds shall die
abstinentnoun詞源 2/ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t/
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One who abstains; a faster.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。