To be in a state of impurity simply means that one is not qualified to contact the sacred.

处于不纯洁的状态仅仅意味着,没有资格去接触神圣的事物。

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They could keep for themselves the prestigious title of "chaste" even though they were obviously performing an act that almost anyone in an earlier period would assume disqualified them from being called chaste.

他们可以为自己享有这有声望的“贞节“称号“,尽管很显然他们所表现的行为,几乎早期的任何人都会认为,那是没有资格被称为贞节的。

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Now, again, I'm not any kind of scientist and so I'm not in any position to say, "Look, here are the details of the explanation."

我不是什么科学家,所以我没有资格说,看,这个解释的细节就是这样

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There's very little control over who writes these diet books or what goes into them.

对减肥书的作者也没有什么资格限制,对其内容也没有限制

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