The tests revealed that non-alcoholics trumped the alcoholics, who had been abstinent for three weeks, in a series of computerized tasks. 实验显示在一系列的测试中,非酗酒者的成绩均优于酗酒者,这些酗酒者已经戒酒3周。
abstinent
[ noun ]
a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages
<noun.person> [ adj ]
self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink
<adj.all> not totally abstinent but abstemious
Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, a. [F. abstinent, L. abstinens, p. pr. of abstinere. See {Abstain}.] Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. --Beau. & Fl.
Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, n. 1. One who abstains.
2. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.
According to the editorial, written by doctors associated with the National Council on Alcoholism, the patient sued a state's Medicaid program because it wouldn't pay for a transplant unless he was abstinent for two years.