俭朴

There is only plain floor board, cabinet with five boxes and old grass mat as his bed in his room.

他的房间非常的俭朴，大地板，五斗橱和一张权当床铺的旧草席，再也没有其他东西了

Past the feed store where the Mennonites tied their horses, out the back of the town hall parking-lot and then down a ridge to the ice- covered stream and through the Church Street culvert to come out in the unused field behind the Front Street stores; the forbidden adventure we indulged in as a gesture of defiance against the parental "come right home."

路过了门诺派教徒们（16世纪起源于荷兰的基督教新派，反对婴儿洗礼，服兵役等，主张生活俭朴）拴马的饲料商店，走过城镇后方的舞会礼堂，走过一个通向冰封溪水的山脊，穿过教堂大街来到佛朗特大街商店后面的一片荒地；我们沉湎于这被禁止的冒险，它标志着对父母说的&直接回家&这一命令的蔑视。

Top-down moralising about frugality and respect for authority is unlikely to impress millions of poor peasants pushed off their land by corrupt cadres who have grown rich by practising the opposite of what Hu preaches.

自上而下的俭朴及迷信权威的教化不像会是腐败的干部强迫数以百万计的农民离开他们的土地。这些贪官变富了，而他们的做法正好与胡主席所鼓吹的正好相反。

And the tea sets in the Ming Dynasty went through two stages of simple and luxurious. Because the society advocated simple in the early Ming Dynasty, while luxury in the late.At this period, tea drinking layed stress on the unity of taste andinterest.

明代的茶具经历了由俭素向纷华变迁的过程，这是因为明朝的社会风气经历了从明朝早期的敦厚俭朴向后期的浮靡奢侈转化的过程，而且这个过程波及社会各个阶层和社会生活的各个方面。

But then Mennonites also "hear" God. He tells them to condemn war and oppose the hawkish Christians. Charismatics "hear" God in their prayers leading them to speak in tongues.

于是门诺派教徒(16世纪起源于荷兰的基督教新派，反对婴儿洗礼，服兵役等，主张生活俭朴)也听见上帝了，上帝告诉他们去谴责战争，反对好战的鹰派基督徒。

I believe that thrift is essential to wellordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure,whether in government,bussiness or personal affairs.

我相信俭朴是井然有序的生活所需；节俭是健全的财务结构的必要，无论是政府，公司，还是个人，都是如此。

I believe that thrift is essential to wellordered living and that economy is a prime requisite of a sound financial structure,whether in government,business or personal affairs.

我相信俭朴是井然有序的生活所必须；节约是健全的财务结构之必要，不论是政府、企业或个人事物皆是如此。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。