| 词组 | abstain |
| 释义 | abstain When abstain is followed by a preposition, it is regularly from. • They seemed careful to abstain from rich, extravagant, or passionate language —Norman Mailer, Harper's, November 1968 • ... an act of renunciation, his decision to abstain from meat —William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, 1960 • ... now of course he would have to abstain from his allusions to the "son of the poet—you know" — Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • ... was abstaining from her customary work simply from an excess of prudence —Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale, 1908 In reference to voting, abstain usually takes no preposition. From may be used, and rarely in appears: • No less than 213 Diet members abstained in the final vote—Collier's Year Book, 1949 |
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