2. Temperance is the greatest of virtues. 自我控制是最大的美德。
3. Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever. 失去的财富可以用勤奋取代,失去的知识可用学习补充,失去健康用节制和药物换回,但是时间却一去不复返。
英英解释
n.
1. the trait of avoiding excesses
2. abstaining from excess
3. the act of tempering