| 单词 | self-denial |
| 释义 | ˌself-deˈnial noun [uncountable] NOT HAVEwhen you do not do or have the things you enjoy, for moral or religious reasons 〔出于道德或宗教原因的〕克己，苦行 —self-denying adjectiveExamples from the Corpusself-denial• She had always shown patience and self-denial when it came to the matter of other people's inventions.• Virginity, voluntary poverty, and self-denial had long been admired.• Second, to remove the standard dessert from the menu would penalise all those people who derive pleasure from conspicuous self-denial.• By these standards, the monks' self-denial seems tame.• For the exceptional practitioner of self-denial a special prize is in store.• Brocklehurst visits the school to lecture the students on self-denial and the horrors of the lusts of the flesh.• There is the self-denial of the musician who devotes all her time and energy to mastering her musical instrument.• But in our society the self-denial of which we speak has a moral dimension which is not strongly recognised in all civilisations.ˌself-deˈnial nounChineseSyllable have not do do the Corpus you when or |
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