“这么有什么恐怖的，”Coleman说，“当其他什么人获得地位或者我们想要的认可时，我们会觉得很危险，这就是一种自我保护行为。”

"There's nothing horrible about that," Coleman says. "it's a defense when we feel vulnerable — when someone else is getting status or recognition for something we want."

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主要原因在于，戒律能保护我们免于自我伤害，以及避免我们自己的不善行为带给自己或他人苦恼。

Primarily, the precepts protect us from ourselves, from the suffering we cause others and ourselves when we act unskillfully.

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结论：必需加强艾滋病防范意识的宣传教育，把增强男性责任、提高女性自我保护能力与行为干预结合起来。

In females, the consciousness of self-protection was weak, and the capacity and ability to enhance self-protection are lacking.

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It's the violence of this horrible act of self-sacrifice, this tragic act of self-sacrifice -- an act of self-sacrifice - intended obviously to preserve the state of virginity -- that grabs our attention and presumably grabbed Milton's.

正是这种可怖的自我牺牲行为的暴力，这种悲剧的自我牺牲--这种明显是,要保护童贞的自我牺牲的行为-,吸引了我们的注意力，大概也吸引了弥尔顿的注意力。

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