Purity, which is the absence of impurity, is a prerequisite for access to the holy or for holy status.

纯洁，不纯的反义词，是接近神圣或达到神圣状态的先决条件。

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And scholarship of the nineteenth century and most of the twentieth century is generally characterized by a deep-seated bias that views impurity rules as primitive and irrational taboos, and sacrifice as controlled savagery that's empty of any spiritual meaning.

十九世纪和二十世纪的大部分时期,学术界都有一个,很深层的偏见，那就是认为不纯的规则是,原始且无理的，献祭是野蛮人才干得出来的,无任何精神意义的活动。

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