He believed whatever one wag once set of monks, "I sleep, I eat, I digest," and they prayed, of course.

他对修士们的态度就像某个僧侣说的,"吃了就睡,睡了再吃",当然他们也会祈祷

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Do you think they sit like monks weighing up ? right and wrong?"

你以为他们会同修道士们一样,权衡是非对错吗“

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He was not against the church, but he thought that people were wasting time being monks, and other people were all over the place in their Russian Orthodox equivalent.

他并不反对东正教,但他认为人们当僧侣,简直就是浪费时间,所有的人在东正教堂里都是地位平等的

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