虔诚的

You know if it's not coming from merit or devotion, the same person you're looking at, but you may not consecrating as a guru but some one stranger whatever.

你知道吗，如果不是因为你的功德或者虔诚，即使是面对同一个人，你可能就不会奉他为上师，而仅仅是把他当作一个陌生人而已。

One's character if true and godly forbids one against doing so.

一个人的性格，如果真正和虔诚禁止1票反对这样做。

But it isn't pious or hectoring; if anything, the author tries overly hard to be tentative, emphasising that he isn't seeking to dictate other people's choices, and doesn't think he has all the answers.

但这并非假装虔诚或者虚张声势，如果说作者有点什么的话，他不过是有些过于谨慎，努力强调他并非试图左右他人的选择，也不认为自己全知全能而已。

As real piety declined, they became more jealous for their traditions and ceremonies.{DA 242.2

如此，真正的虔诚既渐渐衰落，他们就更加热衷于遗传和仪式了。

I am too pious to dare to find out good words for our teacher, because "teacher" is the most respectful word in the world.

我虔诚得不敢寻觅词汇，因为&老师&这两个字本身就是世界上最崇高的敬词。

Like Lenin, these economic policy-makers saw opportunity in crisis, and were skeptical, even contemptuous of democratic pieties.

就像列宁一样，这些经济政策制定者从危机中看到了机会，他们怀疑甚至鄙视对民主的虔诚。

The pieties have been flying thick and fast, as Europe's bosses talk of the need to take more heed of emerging economies.

欧洲老大们提出有必要多留心发展中国家，与之相随的这些祈祷也变得更加虔诚。

But these concerns, he argued, make him more of a realist than a pessimist and put him in the role of the cleareyed outsider — unsettling complacency and puncturing pieties.

他声称，这些关切与其说让他成为一位悲观主义者，倒不如说使他变成一位现实主义者，一位破除自满，戳穿虔诚，眼光犀利的局外人。

The supreme god, Ahura-Mazda, created and ruled the world and was assisted by lesser gods; zarathustra taught that Ahura-Mazda had seven aspects for people to emulate or strive for: light, good mind or wisdom, right, dominion, well-being, piety, and immortality .

索罗亚斯德教导说，阿胡拉·玛兹达有七个可以为人仿效或追求的方面：光明、智慧或睿智、正直、统治、康乐、虔诚和不朽。

The supreme god, Ahura-Mazda, created and ruled the world and was assisted by lesser gods; zarathustra taught that Ahura-Mazda had seven aspects for people to emulate or strive for: light, good mind or wisdom, right, dominion, well-being, piety, and immortality.

索罗亚斯德教导说，阿胡拉·玛兹达有七个可以为人仿效或追求的方面：光明、聪慧或睿智、正直、统治、康乐、虔诚和不朽。

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。