abstaining
present participle ofabstain
| 单词 | abstaining |
| 释义 | abstaining present participle ofabstain abstain verb[I] uk/æbˈsteɪn/us/æbˈsteɪn/abstainverb[I](NOT DO)to not do something,especiallysomethingenjoyablethat youthinkmight bebad: He took avowto abstainfromalcohol/smoking/sex. Abstaining and refraining
abstainverb[I](NOT VOTE)todecidenot to useyourvote: 63membersvotedinfavour, 39opposed, and 15 abstained. Elections
abstainverb[I](STAY AWAY)Indian English tostayaway fromwork: During arecentgeneralstrike,employeesof allmajortradeunionsabstained. Industrial action
Examplesofabstainingabstaining In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Although these groups of adolescents were similar in that they abstained from substance use, their reasons forabstainingwere unique to each group. From theCambridge English Corpus Needless to say, impacts on the legislative result and sanction from the party leadership would differ between voting against andabstainingfrom the bills. From theCambridge English Corpus Of the 479 total speeches, 204 were from senators voting yea and 272 from senators voting nay (with one senatorabstaining). From theCambridge English Corpus For the younger respondents, such sacrifices frequently involvedabstainingfrom social eating and drinking. From theCambridge English Corpus By contrast, when currentlyabstainingusers were also included the correlations with days since last use fell well short of significance. From theCambridge English Corpus This is a startlingly high proportion, and the correlations were only marginally weaker when they excluded participants who had used regularly but were nowabstaining. From theCambridge English Corpus It could be argued that abstentions should also be given a value of zero, sinceabstaininggovernments refuse to support a measure. From theCambridge English Corpus I calculated the probability of casting a vote for the incumbent party, as opposed toabstainingor voting for his opponent. From theCambridge English Corpus The current study was not able to differentiate adolescents within the abstinence group based on their reasoning forabstainingfrom substance use. From theCambridge English Corpus For 1902,abstainingmembers were identified, and numbered 89 (but are not presented here). From theCambridge English Corpus This pattern was replicated when currentlyabstainingusers were excluded. From theCambridge English Corpus Abstainingfrom research or to limit the findings of research at the risk of having the results used for nefarious purposes is to do a greater harm. From theCambridge English Corpus First there was the possibility ofabstaining. From theCambridge English Corpus Many of the remainder are stillabstainingafter their last birth and have yet to face the decision whether to take further action to avoid pregnancy. From theCambridge English Corpus Thirdly, the probability of a person'sabstainingfrom voting is barely affected by sociotropic measures of either insecurity or performance, but egocentric evaluations of both types are a different story. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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