Lent is a time of fasting and repentance lasting 40 days, until Easter Sunday.

斋戒期间需要进行持续40天的禁食和悔改直到复活节来临。

Eggs were originally forbidden during Lent, as well as on other traditional fast days.

一开始大斋节和其他传统斋戒日禁止吃鸡蛋。

'Fast' is the word for a period of time when you don't eat. And when you eat after a fast you break your fast.

Fast指的是一段时间，在这段时间里人们不吃东西。而当这段时间结束后，你开始吃东西时就叫做结束斋戒。

For example, in Rome he fasted, or did not eat, on Saturday.

例如，在罗马，他周六斋戒或不吃东西。

Yeah, with my wife, I also did a mini-fast, which was for one day.

有，我和我妻子还体验了小型斋戒，我们斋戒了一天。

In other words, it is fasting season.

换句话说，这是斋戒季。

Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism sprang from its sacred geography.

印度教、佛教、克教和斋戒教都起源于这个圣地。

Many Catholics, however, are supposed to fast on this day.

天主教徒本应在这一天实行斋戒。

The result is a dreamy, nostalgic track meant to evoke a time when the Ramadan fast began with Zabihi's call to prayer and the iftar, or fast-breaking evening meal, was accompanied by Shajarian's thundering voice.

最终融合成一首梦幻又怀旧的歌曲，让人想起斋月里斋戒开始时，扎比希的祷，和伴随着沙加里安雷鸣般嗓音的斋戒晚餐。

During fasting periods like Lent when Catholics avoided eating certain animal products, pretzels often took their place as a substitute.

在斋戒期间，比如四旬期，天主教徒会避免食用某些动物产品，椒盐脆饼通常会代替这些肉类。

In the seventeenth century days of thanksgiving were religious holidays, days of fasting and prayer, giving thanks to God for things like rain ending a drought or success in battle, as well as for good harvests.

在17世纪，感恩节是宗教节日，是斋戒和祷的节日，是感谢上帝让雨水结束干旱，在战争中胜利，让人们取得良好的收成。

This year, from February 28th to March 30th, nearly 2 billion Muslims around the world will fast from sunup to sundown, so no food, drinks, or even water all day.

从2月28日到3月30日，全球近20亿穆斯林将从日出到日落斋戒，即一整天不进食、不喝水。

More than 26 others were wounded. One report suggested that the explosion happened as the patriots were marking the end of the day-long fast of Ramadan.

另外26人受伤。有报道称爆炸发生时，爱国者们正在庆祝斋月一天的斋戒结束。

During Ramadan, over 100,000 worshipers gather at a time in this modernist masterpiece, lovingly constructed from Javanese marble and stainless steel.

斋戒月期间，逾 10 万名信众会聚首於 这座由爪哇云石及不锈钢材，精雕细琢的现代建筑奇观之中 虔心崇拜。

He retreated to his private quarters to engage in what the Taoists call 'the fasting of the heart.'

他退回到自己的私人住处，进行道家所说的“心灵斋戒”。

If barnacle geese were truly made of wood, they could be deemed vegetarian and enjoyed during meatless fasts.

如果白颊黑雁真的是木头做的，牠们就能被当作素食，在不能吃肉的斋戒时期也能享用牠们。

But it did not explain why my corn looked like it had been on a forty day fast.

但是包装袋上没说明为什么我的玉米看起来像是经历了40天的斋戒。

Members of the mosque prepare for a busy schedule, including evening celebrations after the fast is broken.

清真寺的成员们紧张忙碌的进行准备, 包括斋戒结束后晚上的庆祝活动。

She says people fast in order to understand the way others in need live.

她说人们斋戒是为了了解贫困人们的生活。

The blasts happened shortly before the evening meal that ends the day-long fast during the holy month of Ramadan.

就在爆炸发生前不久，神圣的斋月一天的斋戒刚结束，晚餐刚开始。