So, he's saying you could, you know, marry Demetrius, or you could die, or you could go live in a convent, which is a community of nuns.

所以，他的思是，你可以选择嫁给德米特里厄斯， 或者选择死亡， 再或者你可以去修道院生，那里是一群修女的社区。

I want to have a sort of semi-monastic existence, you know, kind of long period.

我想过一种半修道式的生，你知道的，就是那种长时的。

And then his uncle became very religious while living at the convent.

后来，他舅舅在修道院生变得非常虔诚。

You find Luther attacking monastic life, even though he's been part of it and has been brought up in the Augustinian order, but saying monastic vows are not only unnecessary, but they are harmful to salvation.

你发现路德抨击修道生，尽管他自己曾是其中一员，并在奥斯定会中长大，但他却认为修道誓言不仅毫无必要，反而对救赎有害。

Don Gaston readily chimed in with his Lady's wishes: But knowing the sentiments of the Duke, his Brother, respecting a Monastic life, it was determined that your Sister's destination should be carefully concealed from him.

唐·加斯顿欣然附和了他夫人的愿望： 但是，了解公爵、他的弟对修道院生的尊重，决定对他小心翼翼地隐瞒你姐姐的目的地。

Better instructed in the disgust and ennui of a monastic life, Agnes had penetrated the designs of the Domina: She trembled for the innocent Girl, and endeavoured to make her sensible of her error.

艾格尼丝在修道院生的厌恶和无聊中得了更好的指导，她已经看透了多米娜的设计：她为这个无辜的女孩而战栗，并努力让她自己的错误。

Around 40 monks lived in the Abbey until it was dissolved in 1541 by Henry VIII and the abbey church became the Cathedral of the newly created Diocese of Chester.

大约有40名修道士生在该修道院，直1541年亨利八世将其解散，修道院的教堂成为了新设立的切斯特教区的大教堂。

Understand that the author is trying to bring you into the monastic pace of life, and the seemingly smaller concerns of the monks at the center of his story.

明白作者正试图带你融入修道院的生节奏，以及他故事中心僧侣们看似微不足道的关切。

The German aristocracy are no longer interested in leading that kind of quasi-monastic life, and especially as that devotional element, that crusading element, has been compromised to some extent.

德国贵族不再热衷于那种类似修道院的生，尤其是因为那种虔诚的、十字军东征的精神在某种程度上已经受损。

And when that happens, he will be given a kind monastic retirement, which suggests that had he asked for one now, he could have received it.

当这种情况发生时， 他将被给予一种慈祥的修道院退休生，这暗示如果他现在提出这样的请求，也是可以得的。

Thanks to the healthy customs of her semi-conventual life, she laughed at old age from the vantage-ground of a rosy skin and an iron constitution.

由于她半修道院式生的健康习惯，她以红润的皮肤和强健的体魄嘲笑衰老。

You know, there's a... teaching in one of the rules of living for monastery, you know, people are monks living in monasteries.

你知道吗，有一条关于修道院生规则中的教导，就是那些在修道院里生的修士们。

At the beginning of the 4th century, he came out to organize monastic life for all monks who had imitated him.

4世纪初，他出来为所有效法他的僧侣组织修道院生。

So, monasticism, which involves unmarried people working and living together in highly organized communities, can seem very marginal and odd.

因此，涉及未婚人士在高度组织化的社区中一起工作和生的修道院主义看起来非常边缘和奇怪。

Either way, he left his family to go to live in a monastery in a town several hundred kilometres away.

不管怎样，他离开了家人，去几百公里外的一个小镇上的修道院生。

I mean, the life of a monk, I'm sure we all have an image in our head that's very Spartan.

我的思是，修道士的生，我敢肯定我们大家脑海中都有一个非常简朴的形象。

Tell me about life in the monastery.

跟我讲讲修道院的生吧。

In winter, however, life at the monastery is quite different.

然而，在冬天，修道院的生却大不相同。

If she had left him enough to make it worth his while, he'd give up the monastic life.

如果她给他留下的东西足以让他觉得值得， 他就会放弃修道院的生。

Many aspects of medieval monastic life can be traced back to beliefs dating from the Greco-Roman civilization.

中世纪修道院生的许多方面都可以追溯希腊罗马文明时的信仰。