Roman doctrine, of course, had prized the state of celibacy, insisting that it was the superior state over marriage.

当然罗马教义曾赞扬独身主义，坚持认为那是比婚姻更优良的状态。

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It's not uninteresting, I think, to note that there appears to be absolutely no evidence whatsoever available to John Milton that Homer was either vegetarian or a lifelong celibate.

我认为这很有趣，似乎没有什么证据证明,弥尔顿可以获知,荷马要么是素食主义者或者是独身。

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Now, it's true that -- and this has always been the case -- that a proper marriage was obviously always one of the church's sacraments, ; and marriage obviously had always received the church's blessing; but nonetheless the higher ideal would still seem to be celibacy.

如今，确实是--这也是一直以来的情况-,一段合适的婚姻显然,一直是教堂的一件圣事，婚姻也显然一直受到教堂的祝福;,然而更崇高的理想看上去还是独身主义。

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