self-denying

1. ADJ-GRADED 自我剥夺的;自我牺牲的;克己忘我的
   Someone who is self-denying refuses to do or have things that they would like, either because they cannot afford them, or because they believe it is morally good for them not to do them or have them.
   1. They believed that good parents should be self-sacrificing and self-denying...
      他们认为好的父母应该牺牲自我，一心为孩子着想。
   2. They belong to an older, more self-denying generation.
      他们属于更加克己的上一代人。

1. They believed that good parents should be self-sacrificing and self-denying
   他们认为好的父母应该牺牲自我，一心为孩子着想。
2. They belong to an older, more self-denying generation.
   他们属于更加克己的上一代人。
3. The self-denying pair had been occupied in coaxing the appetites of some of their sick parishioners, whom they, somewhat inconsistently, tried to keep imprisoned in the flesh, their own appetites being quite forgotten.
   原来两个只顾别人的老人，一心劝说他们教区里几个生病的教民吃饭，自相矛盾地要把他们囚禁在肉体的牢狱里①，而把他们自己吃饭的事全给忘了。
4. This would be a disaster. For the final lesson of the crisis is that confidence and complacency are self-denying prophecies.
   但那样做会造成灾难，因为这场危机的终极教训是，信心和自满其实是自我否定的预言。
5. He denies that his prophecy is self-denying.
   他不认同说他的预言是自我否定的。
6. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most.
   她们一定见到不少热情无私、自我克制的事例，英勇不屈、坚韧不拔和顺从天命的事例，以及使我们变得无比崇高的奋斗精神和献身行为。
7. That the "puritans" Weber speaks of tended to be morally-upright and self-denying was not because they felt under pressure to prove how Christian they were.
   韦伯口中的“清教徒”之所以在道德上比较正直，更无私，不是因为他们有要证明自己是基督徒的压力。
8. The self-denying theory of conscience ( intellectual intuition) has unconquered theoretical difficulties from inner mechanism or the matter fact.
   但其良知（智的直觉）坎陷说无论从内在义理还是事实情况都有不可克服的理论困难。
9. Perhaps worrying aloud about global trade has its uses, focusing enough attention on the dangers of protectionism to become a self-denying prophecy.
   或许表达出对全球贸易的担忧是有用的，可以让人们将足够的注意力集中于保护主义的风险，使其成为自我否定的预言。
10. Combinatorial Innovation: Paradigm of Thinking for Self-denying and Self-surpassing
    组合创新：否定与超越自我的思维范式
11. We need a self-denying process, for without denial, the load of cultural development would be heavy.
    在这一反思中，我们需要一个否定自我的过程，因为没有否定，文化发展的负荷将是沉重的。
12. "Self-Denying of Conscience" is his great contribution to philosophy, and is said to be able to contact the noumenon with phenomenon.
    观其整套哲学，之所以能上通本体界，下开现象界，正是由于他苦心建构出来的良知自我坎陷理论。

adj

1. used especially of behavior

   Synonym:    renunciantrenunciativeself-abnegating

2. willing to deprive yourself

   Synonym:    self-givingself-sacrificing