Succulent lamb soon fills our plates, and I'm about to be granted an unusual wish-a rare private audience with the whirling dervishes.

鲜嫩美昧的羊肉很快装满了们的盘子。有一个不寻常的愿望就要得以实现了--独自观赏托钵僧的旋转舞，常罕见的待遇。

Some Brahmins, clad in all the sumptuousness of Oriental apparel, and leading a woman who faltered at every step, followed.

托钵僧的后面，有几位婆罗门僧侣。他们都穿着豪华的东方式的僧袍，正拉着一个踉踉跄跄站立不稳的女人往前走。

" Shall we sway backward and forward, Mary, as if we were dervishes" ?

“们来回摇摆吧，玛丽，就好像们托钵僧一样”？

Whirling dervishes and everything like that, right?

旋转的托钵僧和诸如此类的，对吧？

I've got to say it was a bit like a whirling dervish at that point.

得说，那一刻简直就像个旋转的托钵僧。

The establishment of the two great mendicant orders of St Dominic and St. Francis, it is observed by Machiavel, revived, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the languishing faith and devotion of the catholic church.

马基雅维 (Machiavel) 观察到，圣道明和圣弗朗西斯两大托钵修会的建立，在十三和十四世纪复兴了会衰落的信仰和奉献精神。

He recalled a sentence penned by Gordon during the last days at Khartoum-" I would sooner live like a dervish with the Mahdi than go out to dinner every night in London" .

他想起了戈登在喀土穆的最后几写下的一句话——“宁愿和马赫迪一起过着托钵僧式的生活，也不愿每晚上去伦敦吃晚饭”。

Every social group ever studied, from the Maori Hakka to the Sufi Whirling Dervishes to awkward British people at a wedding, engages in some form of group singing, dancing, and chanting.

曾经研究过的每个社会团体，从毛利客家人到苏菲旋转托钵僧，再到婚礼上笨拙的英国人，都参与某种形式的集体唱歌、跳舞和吟唱。

Then, at half past one, they made their way up the High Street, past Dervish and Banges, and out towards the edge of the village.

然后，在一点半，他们沿着高街走，经过托钵僧和班吉斯， 向村子的边缘走去。

Gongsun Sheng was to enter the town as a mendicant Taoist with Ling Zhen as his assistant, and to stay at some quiet spot.

公孙胜要以托钵道士的身份入城，由凌震为助手，住在一个僻静的地方。

Just looking here at photographs of a whirling dervish in front of a line of police.

此刻正凝视着一张照片，画面中一位旋转的托钵僧伫立在一排警察面前。

The mendicant orders are like those teachers whose subsistence depends altogether upon their industry.

托钵僧就好比那些完全靠勤奋谋生的师。

The mendicant orders derive their whole subsistence from such oblations.

托钵僧的全部生计都来自些供奉。