独身

The abrogation of compulsory celibacy showed the utter instability and lack of moral foundation of the sect.

废除强制性的独身显示，完全不稳定和缺乏道德基础的节。

He was a total abstainer and non-smoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in gymnasium, and had taken a vow celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.

他不沾烟酒，除了每天在健身房作操的一小时以外，没有任何其他文娱活动，立誓过独身生活，认为结婚和照顾家庭与一天二十四小时全部奉公是不相容的。

This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices.

这是通过严格的独身和禁欲主义的做法。

An argument for support of this speculation is that bachelorhood was very rare for Jewish males of Jesus' time, being generally regarded as a transgression of the first mitzvah - Be fruitful and multiply.

支持这个论点的一种思考就是独身生活在耶稣时期的男性是十分罕有的，通常地被认为是违返了第一条戒律——"结出果实和繁衍后代"。

For most of his existence he has lived at 221B Baker Street, smoking a pipe, playing the violin and sticking faithfully to bachelorhood and his belief in the functional elegance of the deerstalker hat.

对于大多数的电影来说，他住在贝克街221b号，吸烟斗，拉小提琴，坚持独身和信仰，穿着高雅，戴一顶猎鹿帽。

At first, I tried to embrace my newfound solitude, forcing myself to remember the pleasures of bachelorhood—gathering take-out menus from every restaurant in the neighborhood, watching basketball or reading late into the night, hitting the gym for a midnight workout, leaving dishes in the sink and not making my bed.

最初，我试图乐观地面对这种新近产生的孤独感，强迫自己想起独身生活的愉快——从附近地区的每家餐馆收集外卖菜单；将盘、碟扔在洗碗池里，以后再洗；起床后不用整理床铺。

But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain self-pleasing and humorous minds, which are so sensible of every restraint; as they will go near to think their girdles and garters to be bonds and shackles.

独身的人是最好的朋友，最好的主人，最好的仆人，但是并非最好的臣民；因为他们很容易逃跑，差不多所有的逃人都是独身的。独身生活适于僧侣之流，因为慈善之举若先须注满一池，则难于灌溉地面也。

Just as women become censurable by men observing celibacy, similarly men become

就像女人是独身男人责难的对象一样，男人也是独身女人责难的对象。

Men attach more importance to marriage than women do, and there are fewer male celibates.

男人们更重视结婚。男性独身主义者比女性独身主义者更少。

Men attach more importance to marriage than women do, and there are fewer male celibates.

男性独身主义者比女性独身主义者更少。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失