To his friends, he’s simply ‘Gaz’, the surfing vegan teetotaller, a source of endless spiritual wisdom.From the 6th paragraph of this article at Australian Men's Health.
上記の文で、teetotallerの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "teetotaller" mean?
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解答
意味：英辞郎によると、
絶対禁酒家英辞郎の綴りはteetotalerですが、もちろんどちらでも問題ありません。
Answer
According to The Cambridge Dictionary:someone who never drinks alcohol
Examples
- I'm not going to pretend I'm a teetotaller. But I don't drink very much.
- There is a vast difference between temperance and being a teetotaller.
- Which may explain why the president, famously, is a teetotaler, as is his sister. — Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2022
- Or the fact that John D. Rockefeller Jr. was an absolute teetotaler. — Kim Velsey, Curbed, 16 July 2021
- On a surface level, the political atmospherics of legal weed have the potential to harm Republicans in 2022, including DeWine, a traditional Republican with a reputation as a teetotaler, who’s running for re-election next year. — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 13 Aug. 2021
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