| 单词 | fasting |
| 释义 | fasting (once / 1356 pages) n Fasting is going for a certain length of time without eating anything. Sometimes fasting is required before you have surgery, like getting your wisdom teeth removed. Often fasting is done for medical or health reasons, or in an attempt to lose weight. For many other people, fasting is an important part of their religious observance. Fasting is done by Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, and Jews, among other groups. Fasting comes from fast, which in turn has an Old English root, fæsten, "voluntary abstinence from food or drink, especially as a religious duty." WORD FAMILYfasting: fastings+/fast: fasted, faster, fastest, fasting, fastingly, fastly, fastness, fasts/faster: fasters/fastest: fastests/fastness: fastnesses USAGE EXAMPLESThere is a fasting centre that sits down near the beach and is run by a man by the name of Mr Moon. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) For any other occasion or milestone, we scrupulously avoid fasting, proscribed in our religion as a sin. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) He said we couldn't because we were fasting and I told him we should go home and fast once we're back. BBC(Nov 13, 2016) n abstaining from food Syn|Hypo|Hyper fast diet, dieting the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods) hunger strikea voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest Ramadan(Islam) a fast (held from sunrise to sunset) that is carried out during the Islamic month of Ramadan abstinence act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite |
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