As soon as I used it, I was a convert.

一用上它，我就皈依了。

Both of the couple say their marriage and the conversion are consensual.

这对夫妇都表示自己的婚姻和皈依是双方自愿的。

We would call her a coffee convert, someone who now chooses to drink coffee.

我们将称她为咖啡皈依者，也就是现在改喝咖啡的人。

I mean, she won't be expected to convert.

我的意思是，他们求她皈依他们的教派。

Despite all of the glaringly obvious issues with a 40-something-year-old man marrying a 17-year-old, this narrative that Pocahontas was " choosing" a white husband and converting Christianity was also a sign to white people that maybe these natives weren't so savage, after all.

尽管一个40多岁的男人和一个17岁的女人结婚明显有很多问题，但波洪塔斯“选择”了一个白人丈夫并皈依基督教的做法对白人来说也是一种信号，表明这些土著并是那么野蛮。

Indian swamis and gurus energetically promoted their teachings to new converts.

印度的斯瓦米和古鲁（指教教师）积极地向新皈依者宣扬他们的教义。

Some Buddhists celebrate Diwali as the day when Emperor Ashoka converted to Buddhism.

一些佛教徒把排灯节作为阿育王皈依佛教的日子来庆祝。

Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways.

皈依能以同的形态出现，也可以通过同的途径实现。

William Penn was not born a Quaker.

威廉·佩恩并非生来就皈依了教友。

Father Koteka says these conversions were both good and bad.

科特说，这些皈依既有好的，也有坏的。

Originating in the Middle East, the religion found a strong advocate in Constantine I, the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

基督教起源于中东地区，君士坦丁一世是这个教坚定的拥护者。也是是一个皈依基督教的罗马皇帝。

He was raised by a black single mother in Detroit, almost flunked out of school and nearly stabbed a teenage rival to death, before finding God, heading to Yale and becoming a paediatric neurosurgeon.

Ben在底特律长大，母亲是位单身黑人妈妈，在皈依基督之前，他快被学校退学，有过前科，将一位青少年对头几乎刺死，后来去耶鲁深造成了一名儿科经外科医生。

Now, it's a gusting could persuade him to become a Christian. That's something we call conversion. It was thought he would be able to persuade the other Anglo-Saxon kings to do the same.

现在，大风可以说服他成为一名基督徒。我们称之为皈依 。人们认为他能说服其他盎格鲁-撒克逊国王也这样做。

In part, many Celtic traditions and popular pagan practices were reframed to fit within a Christian narrative as a way of converting people with greater comfort and ease.

在某种程度上，许多凯尔特传统和流行的异教做法被重新定义，以贴近基督教，成为一种更舒适和轻松的让人皈依的方式。

(Since becoming a monk, he has stopped using the surname given to him at birth.) Growing up, he learned about Chinese martial arts through books and YouTube before getting into Taoism, which he credits with healing his body and mind.

(自从出家后，他就再使用出生时的姓氏了。)在成长过程中，他通过书籍和 YouTube 学习了中国武术，然后皈依了道教，他认为道教可以治愈他的身心。

Moreover the courage of those martyrs who wouldn't give in won even more converts, proof that the secular Roman Empire was just a phase and that a human beings true reward existed only in the heavenly kingdom of God.

而且那些至死放弃信仰的勇敢烈士甚至赢得了更多的皈依者，他们证明了世俗的罗马帝国只是一个阶段，人类真正的奖励只存在上帝的天国。

News of his discovery spread quickly after he returned to Europe and the people were thrilled to hear of so many future converts to Christ; another stated purpose of Columbus' voyage.

他新发现的消息在他回到欧洲后迅速传播开来，人们听到这么多未来皈依基督的人激动已；这是哥伦布航行的另一个目的。

After this, the dragon is so docile that it follows the princess back to the capital where St. George kills it in the town square after making all of the people promise to convert to Christianity.

之后，这条龙变得异常温顺，跟随公主回到首都，圣乔治在城镇广场上杀死了它，并让所有人承诺皈依基督教。

Try to convert to another religion, try to switch to another street gang or friends group or support a different soccer team, and see what happens.

试着皈依另一种教，试着转向另一个街头帮派或朋友团体，或者支持同的足球队，看看发生什么。

Today we know that people try so hard to win converts for their point of view because it is more than merely an outlook on life: it is an immortality formula.

今天我们知道，人们如此努力地为自己的观点赢得皈依者，因为它仅仅是一种人生观：它是一种朽的公式。