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 fasting ['fɑ:stiŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 禁食的

n. 禁食

[医] 禁食, 绝食


  1. I have been fasting all day.
    我已禁食了一整天。
  2. The observances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
    教会有关节日宴会与禁食的仪式遵守得相当好,因为富人遵守节日宴会而穷人则遵守禁食。
  3. An eating disorder in which one alternates between abnormal craving for and aversion to food. It is characterized by episodes of excessive food intake followed by periods of fasting and self-induced vomiting or diarrhea.
    饮食失常一种饮食无序,在这种情况下,一个人常常处于不正常的贪食和厌食的交替状态,特点是偶尔的暴饮暴食继而又很快的引起呕吐或腹泻


fasting
[ noun ]
abstaining from food
<noun.act>


Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fasting}.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part; to go hungry.

Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.

2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.

Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.

{Fasting day}, a fast day; a day of fasting.

  1. There is normally little fighting in Afghanistan during Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting that began March 27. Khost, near Pakistan's western border, is the exception this year.
  2. Members of a Roman Catholic parish in Kewaskum, Wis., who held a day of fasting Tuesday to coax rain, got an answer to their prayers Wednesday when the area around town received as much as an inch or more.
  3. Believe it or not, fasting can be fun and the atmosphere can be festive.
  4. "We wanted to start fasting two weeks ago, but we didn't because we didn't want to hurt the Hungarians," he said, adding that now some East Germans feel they have no choice but to protest.
  5. Though of diverse backgrounds, they are bound together by five principles of Islam: Belief in one God and his prophets; prayer; charity; fasting; and, if possible, pilgrimage to Mecca, the birthplace of the prophet Mohammed.
  6. Kwanzaa, which means 'harvest' in Swahili, is a seven-day celebration that includes fasting, family dinners, candle-lighting ceremonies and group discussion on topics such as unity and co-operative economics.
  7. The Rev. George Clements, a Chicago priest who's fasting with Gregory, lost 39 pounds.
  8. An estimated 1,000 people worldwide are fasting until Saturday, the United Nations International Human Rights Day, organizers said. In London, they will hold a rally and march to mark the end.
  9. If the rebels refused to observe the sanctity of the fasting month, he said, government troops would retaliate.
  10. Ramadan, a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, is due to end Monday or Tuesday with the sighting of the new moon.
  11. The weekly prayer was significant Friday because it coincided with the Islamic celebration of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan.
  12. Also, diplomats say the West may face political pressure to avoid war during the Moslem fasting month of Ramadan beginning in March.
  13. If one is unable to observe the fast for a valid reason, he or she must make up for each day missed with fasting at a later time, or if that is not possible, he or she must feed one poor person for each day of fasting missed.
  14. If one is unable to observe the fast for a valid reason, he or she must make up for each day missed with fasting at a later time, or if that is not possible, he or she must feed one poor person for each day of fasting missed.
  15. All three said they were associated with Washington activist Mitch Snyder whose fasting and feuding with the Reagan administration over shelter for the homeless has captured the national spotlight.
  16. Since the Moslem month of daytime prayer and fasting, Ramadan, begins in late March and lasts four weeks, the talks could well be delayed until May.
  17. "He tried and tried and tried through prayer and fasting and everything he could do to lick it and it beat him," the Rev. Glen Cole, pastor of the Capital Christian Center in Sacramento, Calif., told a Sacramento television station on Sunday.
  18. 'Rabin isn't with us any more,' says Yehuda Harel, a veteran Labour man who is one of those fasting, 'but the Labour movement is.
  19. Titian, asked why a fasting hermit should look as lovely as his image, replied that he painted her on the first day of her penance, when she was still plump and luscious. By the 19th century, the fallen woman was back in vogue.
  20. Hospitals, reeling from government cost-cutting efforts, increased competition and declining occupancy rates, have welcomed the fasting programs, which can produce profit margins as high as 25%.
  21. The men, ranging in age from 19 to 26, have been fasting since Friday, said David Nadiradze, a member of a Georgian pro-independence group.
  22. The party and the government have on one hand taken every possible measure to treat and rescue the fasting students.
  23. All but one was fasting.
  24. Some scholars accuse Moslems of turning Ramadan into a month of feasting rather than fasting, especially since many people actually gain weight.
  25. In the archetypical puberty rite, young men and/or women are separated from the tribe to undergo fasting, various humiliations and often real wounds.
  26. The guerrillas reportedly are preparing new offensives around Afghanistan after Ramadan, the Moslem holy month of fasting, which ends next week.
  27. The Buffalo Area Metropolitan Ministries called on Americans to select a day or days of fasting and prayer in support of the hostages, culminating in a 24-hour fast beginning the evening of March 15.
  28. They called for the release of the estimated 300 activists still detained without charge and issued a special appeal on behalf of Sandile Thusi, hospitalized in critical condition in Durban after fasting for 33 days.
  29. The government has ordered 143 prisoners released from Bangladesh jails to mark the Moslem festival Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Ramadan month of fasting, the government said.
  30. "He tried and tried and tried through prayer and fasting and everything he could do to lick it and it beat him." _ The Rev. Glen Cole, describing what he said was TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart's account of his struggle against a sexual obsession.
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