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

• Investigation and analysis of the motivation for abstaining from drugs in 1294 drug addicts
  1294例戒毒者戒毒动机状况调查与分析
• A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.
  孤立主义一种避免与其它国家建立政治或经济关系的国家政策。
• 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。
• All 160 deputies of the ruling socialist Pasok party voted in favour of the budget while 139 deputies of the opposition parties voted against, with one deputy abstaining.
  执政的泛希社运党（Pasok）的全部160名代表都对预算案投了赞成票，而来自反对党的139名代表投了反对票，1名代表弃权。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Are you abstaining, Mr Smith?
  您弃权吗，史密斯先生？
• The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.
  断食，节食不吃或少吃食物的行为。
• Abstaining ( on principle) from the use of violence.
  （原则上）拒绝使用暴力。