Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

他既不愿了解使感官迟钝的禁主义，也不愿了解使感官麻木的粗俗的纵主义。

Okay, and so then the prophetic voice speaks for the ideal that unifies what would otherwise degenerate into orgiastic materialism.

好的，先知的声音代表着那个理想，它将原本可能堕落为纵物质主义的事物统一。

They wondered how one so charming and graceful as he was could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual.

他们好奇，像他这样迷人优雅的人，如何能逃脱这个既肮脏又纵的时代所带的污点。