英语词汇“teetotal”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

teetotal

/tiːˈtəʊt(ə)l

adjective

Choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol: a teetotal lifestyle...

In the West Midlands, 78% were willing to stop drinking, reduce their alcohol intake or were teetotal already compared to 66% in the capital.
And I hadn't fully realised how odd I'd feel, an omnivore who likes a drink dropped into a city populated largely by teetotal vegetarians.
The alcohol ban is a strain on my mum, she likes a bit of a drink, but my dad's teetotal.

Synonyms

abstinent, abstemious;

sober, avoiding alcohol

informal on the wagon, off the booze, off the sauce, dry

Derivatives

teetotalism

/tiːˈtəʊtəlɪz(ə)m

/ noun ...

One reason for the multiplicity of groups was a difference of opinion which soon emerged between the advocates of moderation in drinking and those who demanded total abstinence - or teetotalism.
With the growth of the movement came a more radical agenda of teetotalism and a concerted campaign to end the state's liquor licensing system through local option legislation and eventually state prohibition in the 1850s.
Personally, as I grow older, I tend more toward my mother's teetotalism and away from my father's moderate drinking.

Synonyms

temperance, abstinence, abstention, sobriety

rare Rechabitism, nephalism

Origin

Mid 19th century: emphatic extension of total, apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech (1833) urging total abstinence from all alcohol, rather than mere abstinence from spirits, advocated by some early temperance reformers.

The first part of teetotal has nothing to do with tea, but is actually a way of emphasizing total, by reproducing its first letter. It was apparently first used by Richard Turner, a member of the temperance movement from Preston, in a speech made in 1833. Early temperance reformers had limited themselves to suggesting abstinence from spirits, but this was an appeal to them to avoid all alcohol.

单词	teetotal
释义	teetotal /tiːˈtəʊt(ə)l / adjective Choosing or characterized by abstinence from alcohol: a teetotal lifestyle... In the West Midlands, 78% were willing to stop drinking, reduce their alcohol intake or were teetotal already compared to 66% in the capital. And I hadn't fully realised how odd I'd feel, an omnivore who likes a drink dropped into a city populated largely by teetotal vegetarians. The alcohol ban is a strain on my mum, she likes a bit of a drink, but my dad's teetotal. Synonyms abstinent, abstemious; sober, avoiding alcohol informal on the wagon, off the booze, off the sauce, dry Derivatives teetotalism /tiːˈtəʊtəlɪz(ə)m / noun ... One reason for the multiplicity of groups was a difference of opinion which soon emerged between the advocates of moderation in drinking and those who demanded total abstinence - or teetotalism. With the growth of the movement came a more radical agenda of teetotalism and a concerted campaign to end the state's liquor licensing system through local option legislation and eventually state prohibition in the 1850s. Personally, as I grow older, I tend more toward my mother's teetotalism and away from my father's moderate drinking. Synonyms temperance, abstinence, abstention, sobriety rare Rechabitism, nephalism Origin Mid 19th century: emphatic extension of total, apparently first used by Richard Turner, a worker from Preston, in a speech (1833) urging total abstinence from all alcohol, rather than mere abstinence from spirits, advocated by some early temperance reformers. The first part of teetotal has nothing to do with tea, but is actually a way of emphasizing total, by reproducing its first letter. It was apparently first used by Richard Turner, a member of the temperance movement from Preston, in a speech made in 1833. Early temperance reformers had limited themselves to suggesting abstinence from spirits, but this was an appeal to them to avoid all alcohol. Rhymes anecdotal, sacerdotal, total
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teetotal

Derivatives

teetotalism

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