但所有的现代人，装饰的鼓吹者认为我对简练的渴望本质上是禁欲主义的。

But modern people will. The supporter of ornament believes that the urge for simplicity is equivalent to self-denial.

youdao

他们不是禁欲主义者，把斋戒看成是傻事。

They are not ascetic, and consider fasting silly.

youdao

这是苦行禁欲者之道——你想由除掉问题的可能性来除掉问题本身。

This is the ascetic way – you want to do away with the problem by doing away with the possibility of the problem.

youdao

Clearly, this is something that he wants to believe or that he needs to believe, but there does seem to be evidence that at least at this early point in Milton's life he's intending to remain sexually abstinent forever.

很显然，这些都是他想去相信的,或者他需要相信的，但好像有证据证明至少有一点很清楚,弥尔顿一生都想做一个禁欲者。

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