I want to have a sort of semi-monastic existence, you know, kind of long period.

我想过一种半修道式的生活，你知道的，就是那种长时间的。

And then his uncle became very religious while living at the convent.

后来，他舅舅在修道院生活期间变得非常虔诚。

Tell me about life in the monastery.

跟我讲讲修道院的生活吧。

In winter, however, life at the monastery is quite different.

然而，在冬天，修道院的生活却大不相同。

For years, Thomas had imagined living at a monastery to be the zenith of his passions.

多年以来，托马斯一直憧憬着能在修道院生活，将其视为自己激情的巅峰。

Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.

中世纪修道院生活的许多方面都可以追溯到希腊罗马文明时期的信仰。

If she had left him enough to make it worth his while, he'd give up the monastic life.

如果她给他留下的东西足以让他觉得值得， 他就会放弃修道院的生活。

Eventually, Jia Xichun retreated into a monastic life and became a nun who traveled around for alms.

最终，贾希春隐居到修道院生活，成为一名四处游走施的尼姑。

So, monasticism, which involves unmarried people working and living together in highly organized communities, can seem very marginal and odd.

因此，涉及未婚士在高度组织化的社区中一起工作和生活的修道院主义看起来非常边缘和奇怪。

Either way, he left his family to go to live in a monastery in a town several hundred kilometres away.

不管怎样，他离开，去几百公里外的一个小镇上的修道院生活。

I mean, the life of a monk, I'm sure we all have an image in our head that's very Spartan.

我的意思是，修道士的生活，我敢肯定我们大脑海中都有一个非常简朴的形象。

At the beginning of the 4th century, he came out to organize monastic life for all monks who had imitated him.

4世纪初，他出来为所有效法他的僧侣组织修道院生活。

He was then asked his opinion of a monastic life: He replied in terms of high estimation and respect for it.

然后有问他对修道院生活的看法：他的回答是高度评价和尊重。

You know, there's a... teaching in one of the rules of living for monastery, you know, people are monks living in monasteries.

你知道吗，有一条关于修道院生活规则中的教导，就是那些在修道院里生活的修士们。

So, he's saying you could, you know, marry Demetrius, or you could die, or you could go live in a convent, which is a community of nuns.

所以，他的意思是，你可以选择嫁给德米特里厄斯， 或者选择死亡， 再或者你可以去修道院生活，那里是一群修女的社区。

The simplicity of this half-monastic life, which revealed to him the beauty of these souls, unknown and unknowing of the world, touched him keenly.

这种半修道式生活的简单，向他揭示这些不为知、未谙世事的灵魂之美，深深地触动他。

Thanks to the healthy customs of her semi-conventual life, she laughed at old age from the vantage-ground of a rosy skin and an iron constitution.

由于她半修道院式生活的健康习惯，她以红润的皮肤和强健的体魄嘲笑衰老。

I lived as a monk, but in the Vedic tradition, which is more aligned with Hinduism, if you had to put it into a category.

我过着修道士的生活，但遵循的是吠陀传统，如果要归类的话，它更接近于印度教。

And when that happens, he will be given a kind monastic retirement, which suggests that had he asked for one now, he could have received it.

当这种情况发生时， 他将被给予一种慈祥的修道院退休生活，这暗示如果他现在提出这样的请求，也是可以得到的。

So when Luther takes the vows to become a novice monk in 1505 and then becomes a priest in 1507, the monastic life is pretty extreme.

因此，当路德在1505年发誓成为见习修士，又于1507年成为神父时，修道生活非常严苛。