fasting
/ˈfæstɪŋ/ 名词 B1中文： 禁食、斋戒
- Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.
- Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.
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It may be supposed that Dantès did not now think of his dinner, but he insisted that his comrades, who had not his reasons for fasting, should have their meal.
Morrel went away, making a sign to the Catalan that he had left his purse on the chimney-piece; but, availing himself of the doctor’s order, the old man would not take any sustenance; at length (after nine days of despair and fasting), the old man died, cursing those who had caused his misery, and saying to Mercédès, ‘If you ever see my Edmond again, tell him I die blessing him.’”
But the mysteries of nature are incomprehensible, and there are certain invitations contained in even the coarsest food which appeal very irresistibly to a fasting stomach.
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