self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink;
"not totally abstinent but abstemious"
例句
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。
Chapter four puts forward our nation’s GMO international trade strategy---ration, profit, abstentious, and our nation’s GMO international trade developing measures. 第四章提出我国转基因农产品国际贸易“有理、有利、有节”的战略选择以及我国转基因农产品国际贸易的发展对策。
