intemperate

英 [ɪnˈtempərət]

美 [ɪnˈtempərət]

adj.  放纵的; 无节制的; 酗酒的

BNC.34560 / COCA.28682

牛津词典

adj.

• 放纵的；无节制的
  showing a lack of control over yourself
  1. intemperate language
     过激的言语
• 酗酒的
  regularly drinking too much alcohol

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 无节制的;过度的;过激的
  If you describe someone's words asintemperate, you are critical of them because they are too forceful and uncontrolled.
  1. The tone of the article is intemperate.
     文章的语气过激了。
  2. ...the unwisely intemperate language of the party chairman.
     该党主席愚蠢失当的言辞

英英释义

adj

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
  1. a hard drinker
  Synonym:hardheavy
• excessive in behavior
  1. intemperate rage
• (of weather or climate) not mild
  1. an intemperate climate
  2. intemperate zones

双语例句

• A intemperate situation is various and complicated, so it is difficult to affirm the criminal responsibility of intemperate people with size, the legal responsibility whether should bear and what legal responsibility should burden after committing a crime.
  过度饮酒的情形繁多且复杂，因此对于过度饮酒人的刑事责任能力有无与大小，犯罪后应否负法律责任以及应该负担何种法律责任等问题的认定就比较困难。
• In her intemperate husband, Mrs Fang has a broken reed.
  有了一个酗酒的丈夫，方太太依靠无人。
• He was immediately led from the arena, and was warmly rebuked for his intemperate haste.
  他立刻被带出场，由于他暴烈性子他受到狠狠的训斥。
• His intemperate ambition will bring him disastrous failure.
  他过度的野心会给他带来灾难性的失败。
• Becket was at least as intemperate as Hildebrand, but he not only got his halo but did so in the fastest time on record.
  贝克特主教至少也和希尔得布兰德一样放纵无度，然而他不但得到了光环，而且是以有史记载以来最快的速度得到的。
• Who is that intemperate and brutal man whom we would redeem?
  谁是那我们应该去挽救的纵欲无度的残暴的人？
• The governor said he would not be provoked into intemperate action.
  总督说他不会受人挑拨而采取过激行为。
• I was intemperate in my youth.
  年轻时我很放纵。
• Ephesus had learnt to substitute the Virgin for Artemis, but had still the same intemperate zeal for its goddess as in the time of Saint Paul.
  以弗所人虽已学会以童贞女马利亚代替阿尔蒂米斯女神，但他们对阿尔蒂米斯仍然持有和在圣保罗时代同样强烈感情。
• For the most part we are an intemperate people: we eat too much when we can, drink too much, indulge our senses too much.
  多数情况下，我们是一个放纵的民族：能吃能喝的时候，吃太多，喝太多，太纵容我们的感官。