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。 The observances of the Church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.
斋月禁令在这段时期进行的从日出到日落的禁食 A fast, held from sunrise to sunset, that is carried out during this period.
病人被迫禁食而且什么也不给吃。 The patient is fasted and given nothing to eat.
