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单词 social drinker
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Definition of social drinker in English:

social drinker

noun
  • A person who drinks alcohol chiefly on social occasions and only in moderate quantities.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Corporate culture itself helps to blur the line between social drinker and problem drinker.
    • Most responsible social drinkers would likely say that yes, it is fine to have a glass or two of wine with dinner at a restaurant and then drive home.
    • I was probably a social drinker more than anything and now I feel I can meet friends in pubs and not drink.
    • Researchers Dieter Meyerhoff of UCSF and Peter Martin of Vanderbilt scanned the brains of 46 heavy social drinkers and 52 light drinkers.
    • The vast majority are social drinkers who indulge in moderation and only when they are with others - but never before lunch - and prefer their alcohol to be diluted with fruit juice.
    • Although she had only been a social drinker, she had started drinking every day.
    • Studies show that numerous and wide ranging differences develop between the ethanol metabolism of the occasional social drinker and that of the alcoholic.
    • Arora and colleagues studied the impact of ranitidine on the blood alcohol levels of social drinkers.
    • Is alcohol consumption something of such grave importance that children need to learn how to be proper, temperate social drinkers?
    • The key targets are social drinkers, those who do not necessarily drink to get drunk, yet who may be irreparably damaging their livers nonetheless through constant consumption.
    • At home, he's learned to be more of a social drinker.
    • I have long believed that the difference between a social drinker and an alcoholic is that a social drinker finds himself in a situation where people happen to be imbibing, so he drinks.
    • Modification programs aimed at those who are social drinkers and feel in control of their ability to not drink and drive, will have to be vastly different from programs aimed at binge drinkers and problem alcoholics.
    • Psychiatrists suspect social drinkers may be naturally more convivial than teetotallers.
    • Campbell described himself as a social drinker but said he will seek professional advice to determine whether he has an alcohol problem.
    • The 25-year study of babies born to mothers who were social drinkers found that even moderate levels of alcohol consumption had measurable effects on the babies.
    • So they make up excuses or label themselves as social drinkers and blame their weakness on the occasion.
    • Harry seems to have gone far, far beyond being a social drinker, even by teenage standards.
    • A regular drinker and a social drinker were defined as one who drank on 4 or more days per week and on 3 or less days per week, respectively.
    • Sam, a former light social drinker, swears he hasn't touched a drop since about two months into his new career.

Derivatives

  • social drinking

  • noun
    • From my work with alcoholics, I can attest that no one sets themselves a goal of becoming alcoholic, but what may have started out as safe social drinking advances very surreptitiously to become dependence and addiction.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Maybe he started gambling, social drinking, and heavy eating precisely because he thought they were morally acceptable, but never got into drugs precisely because he thought they were morally wrong.
      • And there is no such a thing as restricted consumption or social drinking for those prone to liquor addiction.
      • The habitual drinker can never tell when he steps over the defining line of social drinking into alcohol abuse.
      • Occasions of loneliness, depression, and jealousy led to increased social drinking which became alcoholism and that took years for them both to admit and conquer.

Definition of social drinker in US English:

social drinker

noun
  • A person who drinks alcohol chiefly on social occasions and only in moderate quantities.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Modification programs aimed at those who are social drinkers and feel in control of their ability to not drink and drive, will have to be vastly different from programs aimed at binge drinkers and problem alcoholics.
    • Most responsible social drinkers would likely say that yes, it is fine to have a glass or two of wine with dinner at a restaurant and then drive home.
    • The vast majority are social drinkers who indulge in moderation and only when they are with others - but never before lunch - and prefer their alcohol to be diluted with fruit juice.
    • Is alcohol consumption something of such grave importance that children need to learn how to be proper, temperate social drinkers?
    • Arora and colleagues studied the impact of ranitidine on the blood alcohol levels of social drinkers.
    • Studies show that numerous and wide ranging differences develop between the ethanol metabolism of the occasional social drinker and that of the alcoholic.
    • Campbell described himself as a social drinker but said he will seek professional advice to determine whether he has an alcohol problem.
    • Researchers Dieter Meyerhoff of UCSF and Peter Martin of Vanderbilt scanned the brains of 46 heavy social drinkers and 52 light drinkers.
    • The key targets are social drinkers, those who do not necessarily drink to get drunk, yet who may be irreparably damaging their livers nonetheless through constant consumption.
    • A regular drinker and a social drinker were defined as one who drank on 4 or more days per week and on 3 or less days per week, respectively.
    • Although she had only been a social drinker, she had started drinking every day.
    • Corporate culture itself helps to blur the line between social drinker and problem drinker.
    • At home, he's learned to be more of a social drinker.
    • So they make up excuses or label themselves as social drinkers and blame their weakness on the occasion.
    • Harry seems to have gone far, far beyond being a social drinker, even by teenage standards.
    • Sam, a former light social drinker, swears he hasn't touched a drop since about two months into his new career.
    • The 25-year study of babies born to mothers who were social drinkers found that even moderate levels of alcohol consumption had measurable effects on the babies.
    • I was probably a social drinker more than anything and now I feel I can meet friends in pubs and not drink.
    • Psychiatrists suspect social drinkers may be naturally more convivial than teetotallers.
    • I have long believed that the difference between a social drinker and an alcoholic is that a social drinker finds himself in a situation where people happen to be imbibing, so he drinks.
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