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

• 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？
• 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。
• I was intemperate in my youth.
  年轻时我很放纵。
• 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。
• I wrote a decidedly intemperate journal entry on Byron's thunderbolt visit and its miserable outcome.
  我曾以非常激烈的措词写下一篇日记，记叙拜伦的突然来访，以及它的可悲结局。
• Since the late 1970s, massive and intemperate exploitation of groundwater in the whole irrigation district induced by population explosion and barren land reclaim are the main cause of high rate of soil salinization and sandy desertification.
  结果表明，人口膨胀、大面积开荒等导致的大规模、无节制地开采地下水，造成地下水水位下降、水质恶化，是30多年来民勤盆地土壤盐碱化、沙漠化迅速发展主要原因。
• His intemperate remarks got him into trouble.
  他言语肆无忌惮，惹出了是非。
• The style was hurried, the tone intemperate.
  匆促的笔调，放纵的语气。
• 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。
• 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。