Temperance
['temp(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['tɛmpərəns]
解释:
(v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
(v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
(v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
埃尔希编辑
同义词及近义词:
n. Moderation, sobriety, soberness, self-control.
格雷琴编辑
解释:
n. moderation esp. in the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions—in a narrower sense moderation in the use of alcoholic liquors and even entire abstinence from such.—Temperance hotel one which professes to supply no alcoholic liquors; Temperance movement a political agitation for the restriction or abolition of the use of alcoholic liquors; Temperance society usually an association of total-abstainers from alcoholic liquors.
博比编辑
例句:
- Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Now, can we find justice without troubling ourselves about temperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Two virtues remain; temperance and justice. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- In the next place our youth must be temperate, and temperance consists in self-control and obedience to authority. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It was a temperance song (whirlwinds of cheers). 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The truth is, that temperance, justice, charity, &c. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- They may very possibly afford some amusement, but they do not conduce to temperance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Certainly, he said, that is the true account of temperance whether in the State or individual. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- True love is the daughter of temperance, and temperance is utterly opposed to the madness of bodily pleasure. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Temperance appears to be the virtue of a part only, and one of three, whereas justice is a universal virtue of the whole soul. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And the citizens being thus agreed among themselves, in which class will temperance be found--in the rulers or in the subjects? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Then the power of each individual in the State to do his own work appears to compete with the other political virtues, wisdom, temperance, courage. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- More than the preceding virtues temperance suggests the idea of harmony. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And thus our youth, having been educated only in that simple music which, as we said, inspires temperance, will be reluctant to go to law. 柏拉图. 理想国.
编辑:路易斯