Then we strive to live according to our own asceticism.

然后，我们就努力要按自己的禁欲主义生活。

The mix of asceticism and mysticism suggests an author who thinks the real action is happening in another realm.

苦行主义和神秘主义的混合表明，作者认真正的行动发生在另一个领域。

Prayer is not included, and neither is asceticism.

祈祷不包括在内， 禁欲主义也不包括在内。

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

心理上的过分负担了它自身的目的也可能蓄意孤立自己，从而造成自觉的盲目和聋聩，人生禁欲主义的性无能。

They emphasize abstract principles, asceticism, and transcendence of material concerns.

他们强调抽象原则、苦行主义以及超越物质关切。

But it is an asceticism of its own kind—not oriented toward self-denial or self-torture.

但这是一种独特的禁欲主义——不以自我否定或自我折磨导向。

Asceticism of this sort is like the insurance which a man pays on his house and goods.

这种禁欲主义就像一个人自己的房屋和财购买的保险。

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

对于使感官麻木的禁欲主义，就像对于使感官麻木的庸俗挥霍一样，人们一无所。

When we enter into genuine prayer, we are far away from asceticism and all other isms, for we are one with the living Lord.

我们进入真实的祷告中，我们就会远离禁欲主义和其他一切的主义，因我们乃是与活的主成一。

As a youth, I had only to do with asceticism, with thinking and meditation, was searching for Brahman, worshipped the eternal in the Atman.

年轻时，我只从事苦行，思考和冥想，寻找婆罗门，崇拜阿特曼中的永恒。

In so far as I associate the word puritanical with close to asceticism, what makes asceticism asceticism is you want to punish the body.

在我将“清教徒式” 一词与近乎苦行主义联系起来时，苦行主义之所以苦行主义， 在于你想要惩罚身体， 某种意义上是受虐的。

Chaucer affirmed man's right to pursue earthly happiness and opposed asceticism; he praised man's energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life; he exposed and satirized the social vices, including religious abuses.

乔叟肯定人类追求尘世幸福的权利，反对禁欲主义;他赞美人的精力、智慧、机智和对生活的热爱;他揭露和讽刺社会恶习，包括宗教虐待。

Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.

他受过良好的教育，天资聪颖，而且身体上并不缺乏，但他仍然处于某种魔鬼的控制之下，现代世界将其称自我意识，而中世纪则将其视作禁欲主义。

Even the Buddha is said to have practiced body denial through fasting and extreme forms of asceticism for six years, but he did not attain enlightenment until after he had given up this practice.

甚至据说佛陀通过禁食和极端形式的禁欲主义实践了六年的身体否认，但直到他放弃这种实践之后他才获得开悟。

Needless to say, the idealistic solution seems to be the preferable one, as it avoids the listlessness that is often the keynote of purely materialistic worldviews, and the fanatical asceticism that bedevils many ideational systems.

不言而喻， 理想主义的解决方案似乎是更可取的，因它避免了纯粹物质主义世界观中常常出现的冷漠，以及困扰许多观念系统的狂热禁欲主义。

The spirit of self-denial, verging on asceticism, which had ever animated Knight in old times, announced itself as having departed with the birth of love, with it having gone the self-respect which had compensated for the lack of self-gratification.

自我否定的精神，近乎禁欲主义，曾在过去激励奈特，宣布自己随着爱情的诞生而离去，随着爱的诞生而消失，自尊心弥补了自我满足的缺乏。

Women find in my features, my manner, my gait, my speech, a masterful passion—not a passion dried thin with the heat of asceticism, not a passion with its face turned back at every step in doubt and debate, but a full-blooded passion.

女人们在我的容貌、我的举止、我的步态、我的言谈中发现了一种高超的激情——不是一种因禁欲主义的热度而变得稀薄的激情，不是一种在怀疑和辩论中每走一步都转过脸的激情，而是一种完整的——热血激情。