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

它爱护苦行禁欲人就像它爱护肉体感官。

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

它既不苦行僧一样禁欲，不谦卑。

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

因为最需要禁欲人，就 Meredith。因为她毁了 George，你知道吗？

Then we strive to live according to our own asceticism.

然后，们就努力要按己禁欲主义生活。

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一样，这种让年轻埃及人禁欲观点很可笑。

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.

如果你一个彻底禁欲主义者——只关心你己原因和意愿——那么你不会感到恐惧, 不会有希望。

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

心理上过分负担为了它身可能蓄意孤立己，从而造成觉盲和聋聩，人为地产生禁欲主义性无能。

" You wish a real leave of abstinence" .

“你希望真正禁欲假”。

You mean living a celibate and empty life?

Iris：你说过着禁欲空虚生活？

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

禁欲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生活。

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

写过不少关于斯多葛主义/禁欲主义书。

So there's no such thing as an abstinent gay man?

就说不存在禁欲同性恋者？

She's also the author of bestselling books such as Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs.

她畅销书《禁欲中性爱》和《婚外情状态》作者。

Christian-ascetic ideas no longer trouble us.

基督教禁欲主义不再令们不安。

Presumably he has in mind things like smartphone bans in schools and voluntary abstinence during " digital detox" days.

据推测，他考虑诸如学校禁止使用智能手机以及在“数码排毒”日期间愿禁欲之类事情。

A blind drunk can teach more about why not to drink than an abstinent man in all his piety.

一个瞎眼醉汉，比一位虔诚禁欲者更能有效地教育们为什么不要喝酒。

The risk reduces by 50% in the first decade and continues to decrease the longer the duration of abstinence.

在第一个十年，这种风险会降低 50%，并且随着禁欲时间延长，这种风险会继续降低。

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

他既不愿了解使感官迟钝禁欲主义，不愿了解使感官麻木粗俗纵欲主义。