You can recognize its members by their yellow robes and their austere way of life.

可以从黄色的僧袍和他苦行的生活方式上认出他。

It loves the austere and the ascetical as much as it loves the sensuous.

它爱护苦行禁欲的人就像它也爱护肉体感官。

It has nothing to do with any ascetic personal style or with being self-effacing.

它既不是苦行僧一样的禁欲，也不是自我谦卑。

But the furniture was his, so I'll have to begin in a state of Trappist simplicity.

但家具是他的，所以我可能要过一阵苦行僧的日子了。

This took the form of denial of sense pleasures and of sexuality in particular, fasting, and other ascetic practices.

这采取了拒绝感官享乐，尤其是性欲，禁食和其他苦行的形式。

A crowd had gathered in the middle of the street around a man who was dervishing around, whirling swords.

一群人聚集在街中央，围绕着一个正挥舞着剑的苦行僧。

But in an example to ascetics everywhere, that meal need not be dreary just because it is spare.

但对于各地的苦行僧来说，那顿饭不会仅仅因为它是简朴的就令人沮丧。

The austerity of that life may appease your God.

那种生活的苦行可能会安抚的上帝。

My fakir Andrawathi is an amazing man.

我的苦行僧Andrawathi是一个了不起的人。

But we’re not talking about fun populist religion, we’re talking about old-school ascetic Buddhism.

但我不是在谈论有趣的民粹主义宗教，而是在谈论老派的苦行佛教。

Mevlana's dervishes whirl themselves into a meditative trance.

梅乌拉那 (Mevlana) 的苦行僧旋转着自己进入冥想的恍惚状态。

Diogenes disciplined himself through rigorous ascetic training and learned to live life without any luxuries — physical or psychological.

第欧根尼通过严格的苦行训练来约束自己，并学会了在没有任何奢华物品的情况下生活——无论是身体上还是心理上。

The whirling dervishes in the Middle East go into states of ecstasy through the same means.

中东的旋转苦行僧通过同样的方式进入狂喜状态。

Though in his youth he had himself practiced very severe austerities he did not enjoin them on his disciples.

尽管在他年轻的时候，他自己也实行了非常严厉的苦行，但他并没有将这些苦行强加于他的弟子身上。

Their room was a Mediterranean room, almost ascetic, almost clean, darkened to the glare of the sea.

他的房间是一间地中海风格的房间， 几乎是苦行僧式的， 几乎是干净的， 在大海的映照下显得昏暗。

Are we to believe that it would have been an intolerable penance for us to live familiarly with the Elizabethans?

我是否应该相信，与伊丽莎白时的人过着亲密的生活对我来说是一种难以忍受的苦行？

He read sermons on discipline, and hunted up passages in Church history that treated of the Ascetics of the second century.

他阅读了关于纪律的布， 并在教会历史上寻找了关于二世纪苦行者的段落。

On his journey to enlightenment he was despised by the ascetics when he decided that punishing the body doesn't end his suffering.

在他求的旅程中他受到苦行僧的轻视，因为他认为折磨自己的身体并不会终结他的苦难。

Rose looked at both and understood why her cousin preferred the soldierly figure with the sword to the ascetic with his crucifix.

罗斯看着这两个人，明白了为什么她的堂兄更喜欢拿着剑的军人形象，而不是拿着十字架的苦行僧。

He traveled across many countries and lived among various groups of ascetics, but after years of searching, he found his quest to be fruitless.

他游历了许多国家，与各种不同的苦行者群体生活过，但经过多年的寻找，他发现自己的追求只是徒劳。