Secular music was flatly prohibited.

世俗音乐是绝对禁止的。

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They frowned on pleasure: the theatre, novels, secular music.

他们谴责享乐：戏剧，小说，通俗音乐。

youdao

'There's nothing wrong with listening to a bit of secular music... right?' the priest grinned.

米瑞尼神父微笑着说，听一点通俗音乐也没啥不好……对吧？

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He eventually persuaded them to start recording secular music and changed their name to The Valentinos.

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So, that's - at San Francisco - oh I was listening to little stuff on the sly but I wasn't interested in secular music.

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After a near-death experience in 1977 helped trigger a spiritual awakening, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens (and the man long ago known as Steven Demetre Georgiou) converted to Islam and retired from secular music-making in 1979.

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