欧洲的僧侣们会拿一块透明的石头,通常是石英,放在阅读材料的上面。
European monks would take a piece of clear rock, often quartz, and place it on top of the reading material.
书面信息不再是僧侣们使用鹅毛笔和手抄书的所能掌握的,也不再仅限于教会的狂热信徒。
Written information was no longer the domain of monks with quill pens and hand-written books, and it was no longer confined to zealots in churches.
他对僧侣们颇有微词,认为他们心胸狭隘,自以为是。
He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.
He believed whatever one wag once set of monks, "I sleep, I eat, I digest," and they prayed, of course.
他对修士们的态度就像某个僧侣说的,"吃了就睡,睡了再吃",当然他们也会祈祷
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