As culture became more secular, taboos shifted from religion to things like sex, excrement, and body parts, though it's hardly universal.

随着文化变得更加世俗化，禁忌从宗教转向了性、排泄物和身体部位等事物，尽管这并不普遍。

And this academic thinks astrology tried to bring this idea under control; it domesticated it.

这位学者说，星象学想要控制这种想法，将其通俗化。

However, there has, in recent years, been voices criticizing its secularity.

但近些年来一直有声音批评其世俗化。

It seems to me that in order to meet with other students I really need informal, colloquial English.

在我看来，要想跟他们打成一片，我需要练习一些非正式，通俗化口语。

In an increasingly secular age, Rothko's room has taken on the aura of a " temple" or " shrine" .

在一个日益世俗化时代，罗斯科带上了“寺庙”或“社”光环。

For Rothko, an atheist, there was no other world, but like Nietzsche, Rothko felt that what he called " tragic art" , could give meaning to life, in a modern secularised world.

对于者罗斯科来说，没有其他世界，但像尼采一样，罗斯科觉得他所谓“悲剧术”可以在现代世俗化世界赋予生命意义。

But in a crowded, ageing and largely secular society, this is becoming trickier and less desirable.

但在一个拥挤、老龄化和世俗化社会中，这变得更加麻烦，而且不那么理想。

At the same time we suddenly get these horoscope columns appearing which I see as a kind of domestication of astrology.

然而，同一时，这些星座运势专栏突然出现了，在我看来这是星象学一种通俗化。

And, as I said, it's a very secular society.

正如我所说，这是一个非常世俗化社会。

It's a morality that's been secularized through Christian lens.

这是一种通过基督教视角世俗化了道德观。

I mean, the Dutch, for example, they're very secular.

我意思是，比如荷兰人，他们就非常世俗化。

An increasing secularism that has basically, we've lost all sense of moral constraint.

日益增长世俗化趋势，已使我们基本丧失了所有道德约束感。

And during those years, several things happened primarily linguistic or thematic, and both involving secularization.

在那些年里， 发生了几件事情， 主要是语言或主题上事情，两者都涉及世俗化。

And from that day forward, it was a mosque until Ataturk secularized it.

从那天起，它便成为了一座清真寺，直到阿塔图尔克将其世俗化。

A lot of times when we think about religious people and we see representation of a religious person in TV or movies, the person is either completely secular or like completely on the other end of the spectrum and hyper-religious.

很多时候，当我们想到宗教人士，或者在电视剧或电影中看到宗教人物刻画时，这些人物往往要么完全世俗化，要么就极端地走向另一个极端，变得极度虔诚。

She said, although he was entirely secular, he was unmistakably a Jewish New Yorker, in his sense of humor, of course, but also in his appearance and the cadences of his speech, which was peppered with Yiddish words.

她说，尽管他完全世俗化，但他疑是一个犹太裔纽约客，这体现在他幽默感上， 当然，也体现在他外貌和说话语调中，他话语中夹杂着意第绪语词汇。

In France, which is predominantly Catholic but emphatically secular, about 1 in 20 people attend a religious service every week, compared with about 1 in 3 in the U.S. How do you like that, eh?

在主要信仰天主教但坚决世俗化法国，每周约有二十分之一人参加宗教仪式，而在美国，这一比例约为三分之一。 对此，你作何感想，嗯？

It nourishes in family members the habit of withholding great goods from the ordinary course of human interaction to keep them holy in defiance of all material and emotional incentives to secularize them.

它培养了家庭成员一种习惯，即在人类互动普通过程中保留重大物品，以保持它们圣性，抵制所有物质和情感上将它们世俗化诱因。

So when you have essentially a decline in religion, an increase in the secular nature of society, For most people, they need something to fill that void.

因此，当宗教实质上呈现衰退趋势， 社会世俗化特征日益增强时，对大多数人来说， 他们需要某种东西来填补这一空缺。

With more than 2bn adherents, Christianity is the world's largest religion and—though it might not always feel like it in the smugly secularising West—is still growing in many regions.

基督教拥有超过 20 亿信徒，是世界上最大宗教，而且在许多地区仍处于发展之中——尽管在自鸣得意世俗化西方，它似乎并不总是如此。