| 单词 | temperance |
| 释义 | temperance (once / 679 pages) 1n 2n Temperance means restraint and moderation, but if you're talking about alcohol, temperance means not just drinking in moderation, it means not having it at all. The temperance movement appeared in the U.S. in the 19th century, at first urging moderation in drinking but eventually seeking to outlaw alcohol entirely. It managed to get Prohibition enacted in 1919, which did outlaw alcohol, but it was repealed in 1933. Temperance doesn't just have to do with alcohol, it can refer to avoiding any kind of excess: if your new diet requires temperance, you're eating in a balanced, sensible way. Temperance comes from the Latin temperare, "restrain." WORD FAMILYtemperance: intemperance, temperances+/distemper: distempered, distempering, distempers/intemperance: intemperances/temper: distemper, temperance, tempered, tempering, tempers/tempered: ill-tempered, temperedest, temperedly, untempered/tempering: temperings USAGE EXAMPLESSuch temperance will be required if U.S. national-security policy is to remain coherent. Time(Nov 09, 2016) Many of women who were part of that temperance movement parlayed that organization into the women’s suffrage movement. Time(Nov 08, 2016) Throughout much of the 1800s, the women’s alcohol temperance movement was a powerful force in the greater push toward women’s suffrage. The Guardian(Nov 08, 2016) 1 1n the trait of avoiding excesses Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper moderation intemperance the quality of being intemperate dryness, sobriety moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs abstemiousnessmoderation in eating and drinking natural virtue (scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature control, restraintdiscipline in personal and social activities 2n abstaining from excess 2Syn|Hyper sobriety abstinence act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite n the act of tempering Hyper combination, combining, compounding the act of combining things to form a new whole |
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