By this point Jobs was no longer trying to find a guru who could impart wisdom, but instead was seeking enlightenment through ascetic experience, deprivation, and simplicity.

这个时候，乔布斯已经不是在寻找传授智慧的导师了，而是在通过苦行体验、感官剥离和返璞归真寻启蒙。

He imagined another kind of religion and became very ascetic.

他设想了另一种宗教 成为禁欲主义者。

But in an example to ascetics everywhere, that meal need not be dreary just because it is spare.

但对于各地的苦行僧说，那顿饭不会仅仅因为它是简朴的就令人沮丧。

If we deliberately seek the absolute bottom, we become ascetics.

如果我们刻意追绝对的底端，我们就变成了苦行僧。

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

它既不是苦行僧一样的禁欲，也不是自我谦卑。

George was a man of contrasts and in this period they were particularly exaggerated at times he plunged into ascetic meditation fueled by an increasingly dogmatic spiritual outlook.

乔治是一个比较鲜明的人，在这一时期尤其夸张，有时他受日益教条的精神观点的推动，陷入苦行冥想。

On his journey to enlightenment he was despised by the ascetics when he decided that punishing the body doesn't end his suffering.

在他道的旅程中他受到苦行僧们的轻视，因为他认为折磨自己的身体并不会终结他的苦难。

Buddhism, the religion founded by an ascetic who spurned all comfort and riches, flourished thanks to the international trade in luxury goods.

佛教的繁荣靠的却是奢侈品贸易。

Diogenes disciplined himself through rigorous ascetic training and learned to live life without any luxuries — physical or psychological.

第欧根尼通过严格的苦行约束自己，并学会了在没有任何奢华物品的情况下生活——无论是身体上还是心理上。

The historical Buddha was a prince of the Ganges region in North India in the fifth century BC, who abandoned his royal life to become a wandering ascetic, wanting to comprehend and therefore to overcome the roots of human suffering.

据佛教文献记载，佛陀曾是公元前15世纪北印迦毗罗卫国的一位王子，他放弃了王族生活，成为一名苦行僧，想参透人生的苦痛与无常，助人脱离苦海。

At first, the student was open to debate, doubting much of what the farmer said, thinking he was similar to the other ascetics the student had met in the past.

起初，学生对辩论持开放态，对农夫说的很多话表示怀疑，认为他与学生过去遇到的其他苦行者差不多。

Their room was a Mediterranean room, almost ascetic, almost clean, darkened to the glare of the sea.

他们的房间是一间地中海风格的房间， 几乎是苦行僧式的， 几乎是干净的， 在大海的映照下显得昏暗。

He traveled across many countries and lived among various groups of ascetics, but after years of searching, he found his quest to be fruitless.

他游历了许多国家，与各种不同的苦行者群体生活过，但经过多年的寻找，他发现自己的追只是徒劳。

There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.

她的神情中透着一丝苦行者的气息，这在她那身直筒裙式黑色呢料裙装、硬挺的亚麻领子、紧贴鬓角的发型，以及修女般的装饰——一串乌木念珠和一个十字架上得到了强化。

I subsidized wandering story-tellers, who told tales in which the opal played a frightful part; I hired a holy man, a great ascetic, to prophesy against the thing in the language of Eastern symbolism; in short, I frightened the Rajah out of his wits.

我资助流浪的说书人，他们讲的故事中蛋白石扮演了可怕的角色；我聘请了一位圣人，一位伟大的苦行者，用东方象征主义的语言预言反对这件事；简而言之，我把王公吓得魂飞魄散。

After a month Panchu came back, his ascetic fervour considerably worn off. His eldest boy and girl nestled up to him, crying: " Where have you been all this time, father" ?

一个月后，班楚回了，苦行的热情大大消退了。他的大男孩和大女孩依偎在他身边，哭着说：“爸爸，你这段时间去哪儿了？”

Now, ostracized by the ascetic men for what they felt was giving up, Siddhartha would continue on  his own, meditating alone in the forest away from the rest of the entire world.

现在，苦行僧们认为悉达多放弃修行， 因此将他排斥在外。因此，悉达多将独自一人继续修行，远离世事，独自在森林里冥想。

It's not the ascetic, black and white appearance of the Coexist sign — it's something more alive and more representative of the work that he's a fan of.

这不是共存标志的禁欲主义、黑白相间的外观——它更生动，更能代表他所喜欢的作品。

In fact, the ascetics and flagellants of the world belong nowhere in the main stream of civilization — and are of dubious utility and service in any civilization.

事实上，世上的苦行者和鞭笞者不属于文明的主流——而且在任何文明中都具有可疑的效用和服务。

He strikes one, in the free-and-easy atmosphere of the others, by reason of his hard, ascetic air, his bony head, his lined cheeks, his rigidly folded arms.

在其他人自由自在的气氛中， 他打了一个人， 这是因为他冷酷、苦行僧的气质、他瘦骨嶙峋的脑袋、他皱纹密布的脸颊、他僵硬地交叉着的双臂。