As culture became more secular, taboos shifted from religion to things like sex, excrement, and body parts, though it's hardly universal.

随着文化变得更加俗化，禁忌从宗教转向了性、排泄物和身体部位等事物，尽管这并不普遍。

And this academic thinks astrology tried to bring this idea under control; it domesticated it.

这位学者说，星象学想要控制这种想法，将其通俗化。

However, there has, in recent years, been voices criticizing its secularity.

但近些年来直有声音批评其俗化。

It seems to me that in order to meet with other students I really need informal, colloquial English.

在看来，要想跟他们打成，需要练习些非正式的，通俗化的口语。

In an increasingly secular age, Rothko's room has taken on the aura of a " temple" or " shrine" .

在个日益俗化的时代，罗斯科的房间带上了“寺庙”或“神社”的光环。

For Rothko, an atheist, there was no other world, but like Nietzsche, Rothko felt that what he called " tragic art" , could give meaning to life, in a modern secularised world.

对于无神论者罗斯科来说，没有其他，但像尼采样，罗斯科觉得他所谓的“悲剧术”可以在现代俗化的予生命意义。

But in a crowded, ageing and largely secular society, this is becoming trickier and less desirable.

但在个拥挤、老龄化和俗化的社会中，这变得更加麻烦，而且不那么理想。

At the same time we suddenly get these horoscope columns appearing which I see as a kind of domestication of astrology.

然而，同时间，这些星座运势的专栏突然出现了，在看来这是星象学的种通俗化。

And, as I said, it's a very secular society.

正如所说，这是个非常俗化的社会。

It's a morality that's been secularized through Christian lens.

这是种通过基督教视角俗化了的道德观。

I mean, the Dutch, for example, they're very secular.

的意思是，比如荷兰人，他们就非常俗化。

An increasing secularism that has basically, we've lost all sense of moral constraint.

日益增长的俗化趋势，已使们基本丧失了所有道德约束感。

And during those years, several things happened primarily linguistic or thematic, and both involving secularization.

在那些年里， 发生了几件事情， 主要是语言或主题上的事情，两者都涉及俗化。

And from that day forward, it was a mosque until Ataturk secularized it.

从那天起，它便成为了座清真寺，直到阿塔图尔克将其俗化。

A lot of times when we think about religious people and we see representation of a religious person in TV or movies, the person is either completely secular or like completely on the other end of the spectrum and hyper-religious.

很多时候，当们想到宗教人士，或者在电视剧或电影中看到宗教人物的刻画时，这些人物往往要么完全俗化，要么就极端地走向另个极端，变得极度虔诚。

She said, although he was entirely secular, he was unmistakably a Jewish New Yorker, in his sense of humor, of course, but also in his appearance and the cadences of his speech, which was peppered with Yiddish words.

她说，尽管他完全俗化，但他无疑是个犹太裔的纽约客，这体现在他的幽默感上， 当然，也体现在他的外貌和说话的语调中，他的话语中夹杂着意第绪语词汇。

In France, which is predominantly Catholic but emphatically secular, about 1 in 20 people attend a religious service every week, compared with about 1 in 3 in the U.S. How do you like that, eh?

在主要信仰天主教但坚决俗化的法国，每周约有二十分之的人参加宗教仪式，而在美国，这比例约为三分之。 对此，你作何感想，嗯？

It nourishes in family members the habit of withholding great goods from the ordinary course of human interaction to keep them holy in defiance of all material and emotional incentives to secularize them.

它培养了家庭成员的种习惯，即在人类互动的普通过程中保留重大物品，以保持它们的神圣性，抵制所有物质和情感上将它们俗化的诱因。

So when you have essentially a decline in religion, an increase in the secular nature of society, For most people, they need something to fill that void.

因此，当宗教实质上呈现衰退趋势， 社会俗化特征日益增强时，对大多数人来说， 他们需要某种东西来填补这空缺。

With more than 2bn adherents, Christianity is the world's largest religion and—though it might not always feel like it in the smugly secularising West—is still growing in many regions.

基督教拥有超过 20 亿信徒，是上最大的宗教，而且在许多地区仍处于发展之中——尽管在自鸣得意的俗化的西方，它似乎并不总是如此。