abstaining

英 [əbˈsteɪnɪŋ]

美 [əbˈsteɪnɪŋ]

v.  (投票时)弃权; 戒; 戒除; 离开; 回避　
abstain的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 戒绝；抑制
  If youabstain fromsomething, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  1. Abstain from sex or use condoms...
     禁绝性事或使用安全套。
  2. Do you drink alcohol, smoke, or abstain?
     你喝酒抽烟吗，还是烟酒不沾？
• VERB （投票时）弃权
  If youabstainduring a vote, you do not use your vote.
  1. Three Conservative MPs abstained in the vote.
     三位保守党下院议员投了弃权票。

双语例句

• Investigation and analysis of the motivation for abstaining from drugs in 1294 drug addicts
  1294例戒毒者戒毒动机状况调查与分析
• Security Council resolution 1973, passed less than 48 hours earlier with Russia, China, Brazil, India and Germany abstaining, was a triumph for French and British diplomacy.
  之前不到48小时，安理会通过了1973号决议，俄罗斯、中国、巴西、印度和德国投了弃权票，这是法国和英国外交的一场胜利。
• He changed from voting against to abstaining.
  他原打算投反对票，后来改为弃权了。
• Whether acceding or abstaining of it was not important because he just wanted to be an accompanist of abstract academic research.
  是否就任或弃权并不重要，因为他只想成为抽象学术科研的伴随者。
• He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle.
  他使出超人的自制力克制自己，才没有送他的命，可是他终于喘不过气来，罢手了，又把那显然已无生气的身体拖到高背椅子旁边。
• He went into it and drank happily to celebrate his success in abstaining all that day.
  走了进去，高高兴兴地喝起酒来，以庆祝那天的戒酒成功。
• All 160 deputies of the ruling socialist Pasok party voted in favour of the budget while 139 deputies of the opposition parties voted against, with one deputy abstaining.
  执政的泛希社运党（Pasok）的全部160名代表都对预算案投了赞成票，而来自反对党的139名代表投了反对票，1名代表弃权。
• By abstaining in its UN vote, Russia joined China, Brazil and India.
  而现在俄罗斯则和中国、巴西以及印度一起，在联合国投了弃权票。
• The act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food.
  断食，节食不吃或少吃食物的行为。
• Germany chose the company of China, India, Brazil and Russia by abstaining in the Security Council vote.
  德国选择与中国、印度、巴西和俄罗斯为伍，在联合国安理会（securitycouncil）表决中投了弃权票。