As much as she was harmed, physically and emotionally, they could never corrupt her, because she operated through higher principles of humanity.

尽管她身心受伤，但是他们不可能使他堕落，因为她遵循着更高的人性的准则。

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I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged.

我相信，比起那些受环境所薰陶，教育所灌输或者命运所鼓励的人来，他生来就有更好的脾性，更高的准则和更纯的旨趣。

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Mr. DREHER: Well, I'll tell you, the reason that we have Lent, such an austere Lent, is to remind us that, you know, we aren't slaves to our appetite, that we should subordinate our material needs and our physical appetites to higher spiritual principles.

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