The church has tried to discourage the ritual.

天主教堂曾劝阻这一仪式。

To the daily ritual of energising face massage.

到每天对面部进行按揉放松。

Make a ritual out of setting up your workstation in the morning and put everything away at the end of the day.

早晨不做任何与工作无关的事情，在一天结束时再收拾。

Now, it's become something of a ritual to debate the value of a college degree, but as current population survey data show, there has been a sharp decline in employment among men without college degrees compared with those who have them.

现在，讨论大学学位的价值已经成为一种习惯，但根据目前的人口调查数据显示，与拥有大学学位的男性相比，没有大学学位的男性的就业率急剧下降。

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the couples' wrists, and passing a candle around a circle of happily married and respected couples to bless the union.

仪式包括剪发仪式，把在水中浸泡过的棉线缠绕在新娘和新郎的手腕上，那些婚姻幸福又受人尊敬的夫妇围成一圈，将一个蜡烛依次传递，以祝福新婚夫妇。

Both authors espouse the importance of discipline, ritual and habit in managing time more productively.

在更高地管理时间方面，两位作者都赞同自律、仪式和习惯的重要性。

There were often no bodies, and thus no rituals for mourning.

通常没有尸体，因此也没有悼念仪式。

But for male birds, music is actually part of a testosterone-fueled mating ritual.

但是对于雄鸟而言，歌声实际上只是由雄性激素引发交配仪式的一部分内容。

The dance originated from local sacrifice rituals and is now preserved as a cultural heritage.

这种舞蹈起源于当地的祭祀仪式，现已作为文化遗产保存下。

It has become a grimly reliable annual ritual: every January the cost of traveling by train rises, imposing a significant extra burden on those who have no option but to use the rail network to get to work or otherwise.

这已经成为一个严峻、铁打不动的度惯例：每1月，乘坐火车的费用都会增加，给那些别无选择只能使用铁路网络上班或其他的人带巨大的额外负担。

There are a number of approaches to mastering the art of deep work — be it lengthy retreats dedicated to a specific task; developing a daily ritual; or taking a " journalistic" approach to seizing moments of deep work when you can throughout the day.

掌握深度工作这门艺术的方法很多，比如推掉其他工作，专门花很长一段时间完成特定的任务；每天规定一段时间让自己专注；或者采取 “新闻工作者” 的方法，利用好每天中每一段能够深度工作的时间。

One interpretation is that square cauldrons held grains in rituals performed in honor of the earth while round ones held meat and were used in rites to honor the heavens.

有一种解释是，在纪念大地的仪式中，方鼎盛谷物以祭地，而圆鼎则盛肉以祭天。

Women have traditionally been forbidden from operating marionettes, or even making them, a craft that entails complex rituals, conducted under cover of night and involving kola nuts and roosters.

传统上，女性不允许操作木偶，甚至制作也不被允许，制作包含复杂的工艺，要在夜幕的掩护下，原料涉及可乐果和公鸡。

You have have missed in person classes and year-end rituals.

错过面对面的课堂和终仪式。

Never got to go through the ritual of laying their loved ones to rest.

也无法为他们举行葬礼。

It's likely that this scene is part of a " spice agony" — a ritual in which members of the Bene Gesserit voluntarily ingest a poison known as the Water of Life — liquid harvested from sandworms that die from drowning.

这个血痂很可能是“香料痛苦”仪式的一部分——在这种仪式中，贝尼·杰瑟里特的成员自愿摄入一种被称为“生命之水”的毒药——一种从溺水而死的沙虫身上提取的液体。

While the days of the week make even less sense than the difference between day and night in space, the ISS crew still maintain a distinction between weekdays and weekends, and share a ritual meal together as a team on Sunday.

虽然在空间站里，一周的概念与昼夜之分没什么关系，但国际空间站的航天员们仍然保持着工作日和周末的分别，并在周日的时候，会一起享用团队仪式餐。

The Confucian insistence on family over state, morality over materialism and ritual over reward had let the country down in the face of Western threats.

儒家思想讲究家大于国，道德大于物质，先礼后兵，这让中国陷入外国的威胁之中。

At this time, people were probably quite dispersed in the landscape and they may have come here to exchange goods, to find marriage partners, to exchange cattle, perhaps to conduct rituals and ceremonies including some funerary rituals.

这时候的人们大概是住的比较分散的，这里可能是为交换物品、寻找婚配、交换牲畜，也或许是为举行祭祀仪式，包括一些丧葬仪式。

(inaudible) mistake of historic ritual certainly vented his frustration by briefly grabbing the ceremonial mace and was asked to leave the House.

史性仪式的错误当然发泄他的失望，他短暂地拿起仪式性的权杖，被要求离开众议院。