With politics, policy and war, the business of being the president can be altogether unholy.

头脑中满是政治、政策和战争, 总统这份工作可一点也不神圣。

Who encouraged you to dance? Who forced you to admit that you thought our glorious Cause was neither glorious nor sacred? Who goaded you into admitting that you thought men were fools to die for high-sounding principles?

是谁怂勇你跳舞呢？是谁强迫你承认了你认为我们主义既不光荣也不神圣呢？是谁促使你承认你觉得那些为响亮信条而牺牲人便是傻瓜呢？谁帮助你给了那些老太太许多闲谈资料呢？谁正在劝说你提前几年便匆匆地将丧服脱掉呢？

Moore refers to Mircea Eliade who, in his book The Sacred and The Profane, explains how our modern society is based solely on the profane and no longer acknowledges the sacred as an ontologically unique space.

摩尔引用是米尔恰·伊利亚德，他在《神圣与世俗》一书中提出，现代社会仅基于世俗空间，不认可神圣空间独立性。

'I'll speak to you after the service, ' said the parson, in quite a homely way— yes, turning all at once into a common man no holier than you or I.

牧师了这话，就像拉家对她说：‘做完礼拜后我再找你谈谈。’——不错，那牧师顿时就变得跟你我一样，一点也不神圣了。

I would love a nice burning bush about now -- but the holy doesn't come only from the divine, as I understand it. It's woven through life.

我倒是喜欢周围有一棵燃烧着灌木--但据我所了解，神圣不只来自神，它交织在我们生活中。

They're not sacred, they're not hallowed.

它们一点也不神圣。

The officials ruled the solar eclipse is not listed as a holy day for their religions, the complaint says.

起诉书中称，官员们认为日食于他们所信奉宗教而言不属于神圣节日。

The interest you cherish is lawless and unconsecrated.

你所珍视兴趣是非法且不神圣。

Sacred doesn’t mean good and profane doesn’t mean bad.

神圣并不意味着好，亵渎并不意味着坏。

There is no divinely sanctioned moral order.

不存在神圣认可道德秩序。

So how could you be sure which was like the true Christian approach when you were growing up with two opposite approaches to music and you started playing music like when you were six, when you got a mandolin.

在你成长过程中， 面对两种截然不同音乐态度， 且从六岁起就开始弹曼陀林， 深陷音乐之中，而一个教会却说乐器在教堂中是不对， 它们不属于这神圣之地。 在这种情况下， 你如何确定哪种才是真正基督教做法呢？

The vaulted space feels less sacrosanct with a stepladder before the altar, where on this occasion Jack was balanced precariously trying to light the candelabra.

拱形空间因祭坛前一架梯子而显得不那么神圣庄严，这一次， 杰克正小心翼翼地试图爬上梯子点亮烛台。

For many people, even in Britain today, the killing of a king, or regicide as it is known, was a terrible, evil, ungodly thing.

对于许多人来说， 甚至在今天英国，处决一个国王， 也就是所谓弑君罪，是一件可怕、邪恶、不神圣事情。

Even though I feel like once something is work, it can feel less sacred, but that part has never felt less sacred to me.

尽管我觉得一旦某件事变成了工作，它可能会显得不那么神圣， 但阅读对我来说从未因此失去其神圣性。

Nor are they ashamed to cut strong spear-shaft from sacred trees, or to make a covering for their shields from the worn-out ox.

他们也不羞于从神圣树上砍下坚实矛杆，或用破旧牛革制作盾牌覆面。

We are talking about the Puritan or Protestant work ethic here, that it is godly to work and ungodly to waste time.

我们在这里谈论是清教徒或新教工作伦理，认为工作是神圣， 浪费时间则是不神圣。

It would seem impossible that any one, however incrusted with care, could escape the Godful influence of these sacred fern forests.

任何人，无论多么小心翼翼， 乎都不可能逃脱这些神圣蕨类植物森林神圣影响。

The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.

然而，属血气人不领会　神圣灵事，反倒以为愚拙，并且不能知道，因为这些事惟有属灵人才能看透。

Instead of living by the divine life, we may turn to the old life and ask the Lord Jesus to help us to improve ourselves.

我们不凭神圣生命活着，反而可能转向旧生命，求主耶稣帮助我们改进自己。

And if every day, every moment is filled with the sacred verse, there's nothing that's not sacred.

如果每一天，每一刻都充满了神圣诗句，那么就没有不神圣东西了。