ascetic

英 [ə'setɪk] 美 [ə'setɪk]

• adj. 禁欲的
• n. 苦行者

英英释义

Noun:

1. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

Adjective:

1. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;

   "ascetic practices"
   

2. practicing great self-denial;

   "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"
   "a desert nomad's austere life"
   "a spartan diet"
   "a spartan existence"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.
   这要通过严厉的独身生活和禁欲修行而达到。

用作名词 (n.)

1. Rabia went into the desert to pray and became an ascetic.
   随后拉比尔走进沙漠祈祷，从此成为苦行者。

经典引文

• The old Ascetick christians found a paradise in a desert.

  出自： Sir T. Browne

• He wore a perfectly plain, almost ascetic dark suit.

  出自： R. Rendell

• His face seeming ascetic until cheered by a smile.

  出自： W. Trevor

近反义词

【近义词】

• abstainer 节制者
• austere 简朴的
• abstinent 饮食有度的
• frugal 节俭的
• abstemious 有节制的
• Spartan 斯巴达人
• severe 严厉的
• monastic 僧侣
• celibate 独身的
• Puritan 清教徒
• penitent 忏悔的
• ascetical 苦行的