- 1克己的；不讓自己享受的（常帶宗教或道德味道；不是「否認」）
A self-denying person is one who does not take the easy or pleasant thing, on purpose, because they think that is right — often from religion or a strict moral rule. You might hear of a self-denying parent who keeps nothing for themselves, or a self-denying monk who lives with very little. It is a describing word, a little literary. In everyday talk people more often say someone is hard on themselves, or that they never treat themselves. Though actually, calling someone self-denying can be praise (they are not greedy) or a quiet worry (they never let themselves have anything). It does not mean they deny facts, and it is not the same as shy: a shy person holds back from people; a self-denying person holds back from pleasure. The matching noun is self-denial.
From the word’s history
From self- + denying.
由 self- 加 denying「拒絕」組成。
組成From self- + denying. Self- is from Old English self, “one’s own person”; denying is the -ing form of deny, here “refusing yourself,” not “saying it is false.”
同家族的字
- self-denialthe noun: the practice this adjective describes
- denythe verb inside it — here, to refuse a pleasure, not to refuse a fact
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
self-denyingadj
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Without concern for one's own advantage; selfless or self-sacrificing.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。