abstinence

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The ultimate goal is for them to separate—abstinence before marriage, you know.
你知道的，在结婚前让他们分开的最终目的是保持禁欲。
Such periods of abstinence were regularly punctuated with periods of alcohol abuse.
这样的戒酒期总是有规律地被酒精滥用时期打断。
But now he joins in when it's necessary for business reasons and often talks and jokes about his abstinence -- and he volunteers to be the designated driver now and then as well.
但是，现在他也会处于生意的原因参加一些社交聚会，并且时常拿他的戒酒行为开玩笑，而且他还时不时地志愿为那些饮酒的人做专职司机。

Pope Benedict has said the Catholic Church teaching of abstinence and fidelity is the only way to combat the AIDS problem.
He dismisses his brother's entirely practical argument, because for him chastity is a lot more than a simple exercise of sexual abstinence.
他推翻了他弟弟所有实际的论点，因为对他来说,贞节不仅仅是简单的禁止性欲。
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Orpheus had provided Milton with a paradigm of the poet, the poet whose discipline and whose abstinence nourished and strengthened his poetry.
俄耳甫斯在弥尔顿看来是诗人的模范,他严于律己，节制禁欲，让诗作更加出色。
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It promotes abstinence until marriage because this makes people healthier and happier, says Ms Hayes.
ECONOMIST: The battle to purify American sex-lives

Abstinence is the practice of abstaining from something such as alcoholic drink or sex, often for health or religious reasons.

禁欲
As an abstinence body, it catered to the teachings of Christian theology and became a symbol of Christian art.
它作为一个禁欲的身体,迎合了基督教神学的教义,并作为基督教艺术中的一个象征符号。
经济学
(旨在积累资本的)进项储存，节流，节支[亦作 abstinency]
节欲