abstain: [14] The literal meaning of this word’s ultimate source, Latin abstinēre, was ‘hold or keep away’, and hence ‘withhold’ (the root verb, tenēre, produced many other derivatives in English, such as contain, maintain, obtain, and retain, as well as tenacious, tenant, tenement, tenet, tenor, and tenure).
That is how it was used when it was first
权威例句
1. They say it would be political suicide for the party to abstain.
他们说这个政党弃权无异于自毁政治前程。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Abstain from sex or use condoms.
禁绝性事或使用安全套。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Do you drink alcohol, smoke, or abstain?
你喝酒抽烟吗，还是烟酒不沾？
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4. His doctor ordered him to abstain from beer and wine.
