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。

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。

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

它既不苦行僧样的禁欲，也不自我谦卑。

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.

月禁欲的季节，向埃塞俄比亚学习白昼短暂、夜晚漫长、气温寒冷，有诞的记忆迅速褪去，距离春天的到来还十分遥远——正如T.S.艾略特所写的，“最残酷的月份”不4月，而1月。

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

为最需要禁欲的人，就 Meredith。为她毁了 George，你知道吗？

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。

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洁，摒弃尘世，戴着顶禁欲苦行的帽子四处行善，口袋里装着宗教小册子。

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，做个真正的禁欲主义者，他说，“不，这些重要的事情，我应该悲伤。”

He scolded excessive drinking as flying in the face of the abstinence that Lent was meant to symbolize.

他斥责过度饮酒与四旬期所象征的禁欲背道而驰。

If you were a complete stoic-caring only for your own reason and will-then you would not have fear or hope.

如果你个彻底的禁欲主义者——只心你自己的原和意愿——那么你不会感到恐惧, 也不会有希望。

" You wish a real leave of abstinence" .

“你希望真正的禁欲假”。

You mean living a celibate and empty life?

Iris：你说过着禁欲空虚的生活？

To abstain from having sex would mean not to have sex – it's called marriage!

禁欲的意思就不发生性行为——这叫做结婚！

It seems like you live a pretty stoic life.

你似乎过着相当禁欲的生活。

I've written a number of books about Stoic philosophy.

我写过不少于斯多葛主义/禁欲主义的书。

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、我的言谈中发现了种高超的激情——不种禁欲主义的热度而变得稀薄的激情，不种在怀疑和辩论中每走步都转过脸的激情，而种完整的——热血激情。

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。

For Aureliano Segundo it was almost simultaneously the beginning and the end of happiness Fernanda carried a delicate calendar with small golden keys on which herspiritual adviser had marked in purple ink the dates of venereal abstinence.

对奥雷里亚诺第二来说，这几乎同时幸福的开始和结束。费尔南达拿着本精致的日历，上面有小金钥匙，她的精神导师在上面用紫色墨水标出了性病禁欲的日期。

Every night that I go to a concert or a party, every day that I walk around the neighborhood, I find my secondary abstinence trailing me like a sad ghost or an unwanted dog.

每当夜幕降临， 我去参加音乐会或派对，又或在白天漫步于社区时，我总能感觉到我的次级禁欲像个悲伤的幽灵或只不受欢迎的狗样紧随其后。