abstentious

有节制的中释adj

1 They are abstemious and abstain from most of the modern things that other English people, who are now rarely abstentious, enjoy..他们生活节俭，有意避开其他英国人所享用的大部分现代产品。现代生活节俭的英国人实属罕见。

2 But his abstentious parishioners, who could accept abstention from all alcohol, could not abstain from living without owning people..然而他的有节制的教区居民们，虽可以接受戒酒，却不能在生活中戒掉不拥有人。