Перевод слова

Перевод: abstemious

[прилагательное]
умеренный; воздержанный; бережливый; отрегулированный

Тезаурус:

1. Whereas Nicolae preferred to turn a blind eye to his son's misdemeanours, which were so unlike his own abstemious and dedicated youth, Elena seemed almost to prefer Nicu's bad behaviour to Valentin's modest and retiring example.
2. In contradistinction to the indolent paupers who sponged off the Poor Rate and exploited pay make-up, and the hard-working landless town dweller who also suffered, he further cited the most respectable portion of the peasantry who were prevented from rising above the nominal low price of hire, so that the wage level "must soon fall too low to allow the most abstemious worker to maintain himself.
3. In some ways, Livesey seems to have led an abstemious, not to say ascetic life.
4. I try to be a reasonably abstemious individual.
5. There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit.
6. Until 22 December 1989, the General-Secretary and his wife were presented to the Romanian people (despite Elena's highly visible furs and cashmere clothing) as a hard-working, abstemious couple with only one thought - the well-being of "The People".
7. The King recounted past adventures, selected meats for him, joked about the abstemious habits of the baby St Nicholas, who refused the breast every Wednesday and Friday.
8. On the whole we were an abstemious lot, but when the depression began to bite into salary rises during the early 30s, and escalating prices made living all the more precarious, some of us wondered if Tom Miller might have paid his staff what they felt to be their well-earned incremental increases by accepting a few extra advertisements.
9. Sergei and Masha came to my room and I opened a bottle of mineral water: we all felt we needed to be abstemious.
10. He was a widower, and very abstemious
11. It was noted of Henry I of Germany that he was merry in his cups, but never to the detriment of royal dignity; and of William I of England that he was so abstemious that he never took more than three cups of wine after dinner.
12. "Very abstemious of you."
13. The theatre as a whole is I think becoming less abstemious, more expressionistic and romantic in style."