But I also believe in honesty, and abstinence wasn't my journey.

但我也主张诚实，我过去也没有禁欲。

He imagined another kind of religion and became very ascetic.

他设想了另一种宗教 成为禁欲主义者。

Which brings us to the next problem, the very unusually high rates of virginity and abstinence.

这就引出了下一个问题，常高的童贞率和禁欲率。

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

心理上的过分负担为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，人为地产生禁欲主义的性无能。

However, the study only started measuring abstinence – the practice of rejecting alcohol or recreational drug use – in 2017.

然而，这项研究直到2017年才开始衡量禁欲——拒绝酒精或娱乐性药物使用的做法。

It says men and women returning from these areas should practice safer sex or abstinence for six months.

从这些地区返回的男女六个内都应该践行更加安全的性生活或禁欲。

It loves the austere and the ascetical as much as it loves the sensuous.

它爱护苦行禁欲的人就像它也爱护肉体感官。

What, we can't defend the wall unless we're celibate?

怎么, 我们必须禁欲才能守好长城吗?

It has nothing to do with any ascetic personal style or with being self-effacing.

它既不是苦行僧一样的禁欲，也不是自我谦卑。

January is a season of abstinence, take a lesson from Ethiopia Short days, long nights, freezing temperatures, Christmas a swiftly fading memory and the prospect of spring remote -- " the cruellest month" is not April, as T.S. Eliot wrote, but January.

一是禁欲的季节，向埃塞俄亚学习白、夜晚漫长、气温寒冷，有关圣诞的记忆迅速褪去，距离春天的到来还十分遥远——正如T.S.艾略特所写的，“最残酷的份”不是4，而是1。

'Cause if anybody needs to be celibate, it's Meredith. 'Cause she broke George, you know?

因为最需要禁欲的人，就是 Meredith。因为她毁了 George，你知道吗？

Now, if she had been the heroine of a moral storybook, she ought at this period of her life to have become quite saintly, renounced the world, and gone about doing good in a mortified bonnet, with tracts in her pocket.

如果她曾是一篇道德故事中的女主人公，她就该在生命中的这个阶段变得非常圣洁，摒弃尘世，戴着一顶禁欲苦行的帽子四处行善，口袋里装着宗教小册子。

But, of course, contraception has come a long long way in recent years. In cultures that provide access to it, folks have wide range of contraception options — you know, in addition to abstinence.

但是，当然，避孕方法近年来取得了长足的进步。在提供避孕方法的文化中，人们有广泛的避孕选择——你知道，除了禁欲。

As Ms El Feki's book makes clear, such claims about the abstinence of young Egyptians are laughable.

正如厄•菲姬在书中明确指出的一样，这种让年轻埃及人禁欲的观点很可笑。

His friends told him he should stop and be a proper Stoic, and he said, " No, these are important things, and I should grieve."

他的朋友告诉他应该停下来，做一个真正的禁欲主义者，他说，“不，这些是重要的事情，我应该悲伤。”

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

当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，因为我们乃是与活的主成为一。

I just... I really want to be here, more than anything, even if that means being celibate for 14 more days.

我只是… … 我真的很想留在这里，非常想，就算再禁欲14天也没问题。

In 1774 she left for the New World, determined to forswear sex and create a following to share her belief.

1774年，她决定开创一个新世界，她誓言禁欲并找到了志同道合的信徒。

Sex-addiction treatment is designed to help people with impulse-control issues and, like Alcoholics Anonymous, focuses on abstinence and avoiding triggers.

性成瘾治疗旨在帮助那些性冲动控制能力有问题的人，而且，和匿名戒酒会一样，这种治疗把重点放在了禁欲和避免诱因上。

If you say that abstinence is the way to go, they'll listen.

如果你说禁欲才是正路，他们会听的。