Succulent lamb soon fills our plates, and I'm about to be granted an unusual wish-a rare private audience with the whirling dervishes.

鲜嫩美昧的羊肉很快装满了我们的盘子。我有一个不寻的愿望就要得以实现了--独自观赏托钵僧的旋转舞，这是见的待遇。

Some Brahmins, clad in all the sumptuousness of Oriental apparel, and leading a woman who faltered at every step, followed.

托钵僧的后面，有几位婆罗门僧侣。他们都穿着豪华的东方式的僧袍，正拉着一个跄跄站立不稳的女人往前走。

Whirling dervishes and everything like that, right?

旋转的托钵僧和诸如此类的，对吧？

I've got to say it was a bit like a whirling dervish at that point.

我得说，那一刻简直就像个旋转的托钵僧。

The establishment of the two great mendicant orders of St Dominic and St. Francis, it is observed by Machiavel, revived, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the languishing faith and devotion of the catholic church.

马基雅维 (Machiavel) 观察到，圣道明和圣弗朗西斯两大托钵修会的建立，在十三和十四世纪复兴了天主教会衰落的信仰和奉献精神。

He recalled a sentence penned by Gordon during the last days at Khartoum-" I would sooner live like a dervish with the Mahdi than go out to dinner every night in London" .

他想起了戈登在喀土穆的最后几天写下的一句话——“我宁愿和马赫迪一起过着托钵僧式的生活，也不愿每天晚上去伦敦吃晚饭”。

Gongsun Sheng was to enter the town as a mendicant Taoist with Ling Zhen as his assistant, and to stay at some quiet spot.

公孙胜要以托钵道士的身份入城，由凌震为助手，住在一个僻静的地方。

Just looking here at photographs of a whirling dervish in front of a line of police.

此刻正凝视着一张照片，画面中一位旋转的托钵僧伫立在一排警察面前。

The mendicant orders derive their whole subsistence from such oblations.

托钵僧的全部生计都来自这些供奉。