given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors;
\\\"a hard drinker\\\"
造句
用作形容詞(adj.)
His intemperate ambition will bring him disastrous failure. 他過度的野心會(huì)給他帶來災(zāi)難性的失敗。
His attack on traditional family life was so intemperate that everything they most valued seemed trampled on. 他對傳統(tǒng)家庭生活的攻擊是如此激烈，以至于他們所珍視的一切似乎都遭到了踐踏。
The man who has been intemperate so many years are in his last days. 那人放縱了這么多年，怕是活不了幾天了。
She has an intemperate husband, who indulges in drinking. 他有一個(gè)酗酒的丈夫。
常用短語
The Zones are either Temperate or Intemperate, and the Intemperate are either Cold or Hot.