Their observance protects the holy object from profanation, from being profaned, reverting from holy status back to common status.

它们按照惯例保护着神圣的东西不受亵渎，不受玷污，不让它们重新回归世俗。

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And speaking in turn to the arden secularists to say religion should have no part in the White House.

再说到艺术世俗主义者,他们说白宫不应该涉及宗教。

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He is not his equal by nature and cannot be made so by human laws or human institutions.

他们天生就不平等,更不能通过世俗的法律与制度获取平等

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Why can't he write love poetry, secular poetry, instead of this much more disciplined, much more difficult mode of sacred and prophetic poetry ? that he seems already to have wedded himself to?

为什么不写爱情诗，世俗的诗，而是这些,拘束难写的庄严的充满套路的,他似乎长久以来一直都在写的诗呢？

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So it becomes both impure and profane.

变成不纯洁的，世俗的。

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Profane simply means not holy; not sacred.

世俗“仅仅是指不纯净的，不圣洁的。

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