It was easy to promise self–abnegation when self was wrapped up in another, and heart and soul were purified by a sweet example.

当一个人的自我被包容在另一个人身中，身心都被一种美好的榜样所净化时，要保证做到自我克制是很容易的。

Two tears slid down her fallen cheeks, in and out of the myriad coruscations of immolation and abnegation and time.

两滴泪水顺着塌陷的脸颊滑落，在无数牺牲、放弃和时间的光辉中进进出出。

However loudly I may proclaim the madness of walking in the path of self- abnegation, I cannot avoid it altogether.

无论我多么大声地宣称走在自我克制的道路上是疯狂的，我都无法免。

In his early twenties the conviction of the futility of effort, of the wisdom of abnegation, had been confirmed by the philosophies he had admired as well as by his association with Maury Noble, and later with his wife.

在他 20 岁出头的时候，他坚信努力是徒劳的，放弃是明智的，这已经被他所钦佩的哲学以及他与莫里诺布尔以及后来与他妻子的交往所证实。