Intemperance

(noun.) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; 'the intemperance of their language'.

(noun.) consumption of alcoholic drinks.

(noun.) the quality of being intemperate.

艾格尼丝编辑

• You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Any affinity to wantonness and intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Yes, he said, there are all the evils which we were just now passing in review: unrighteousness, intemperance, cowardice, ignorance. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then no intemperance or madness should be allowed to approach true love? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The soul too has her own corrupting principles, which are injustice, intemperance, cowardice, and the like. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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