Temperance
['temp(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['tɛmpərəns]
解釋/意思:
(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.
埃尔希編輯
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Moderation, sobriety, soberness, self-control.
格雷琴編輯
解釋/意思:
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.
博比編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Justice and health of mind will be of the company, and temperance will follow after? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Now, can we find justice without troubling ourselves about temperance? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Two virtues remain; temperance and justice. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In the next place our youth must be temperate, and temperance consists in self-control and obedience to authority. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It was a temperance song (whirlwinds of cheers). 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The truth is, that temperance, justice, charity, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- They may very possibly afford some amusement, but they do not conduce to temperance. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Certainly, he said, that is the true account of temperance whether in the State or individual. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Do you observe that we were not far wrong in our guess that temperance was a sort of harmony? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- True love is the daughter of temperance, and temperance is utterly opposed to the madness of bodily pleasure. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Temperance appears to be the virtue of a part only, and one of three, whereas justice is a universal virtue of the whole soul. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And the citizens being thus agreed among themselves, in which class will temperance be found--in the rulers or in the subjects? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- More than the preceding virtues temperance suggests the idea of harmony. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
編輯:路易斯