fasting

['fɑ:stiŋ]

n. 禁食
动词fast的现在分词

例句与用法：

Billy had been fasting against Cooper for three days before the debtor showed up.

比利为索债在珀门前静坐绝食三天，欠债人库珀才露面。

An eating disorder in which one alternates between abnormal craving for and aversion to food. It is characterized by episodes of excessive food intake followed by periods of fasting and self-induced vomiting or diarrhea.

饮食失常一种饮食无序，在这种情况下，一个人常常处于不正常的贪食和厌食的交替状态，特点是偶尔的暴饮暴食继而又很快的引起呕吐或腹泻

The observances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

教会有关节日宴会与禁食的仪式遵守得相当好，因为富人遵守节日宴会而穷人则遵守禁食。

I have been fasting all day.

我已禁食了一整天。