Worldly affairs are so, rising and falling in turn.

世事就是这样，兴兴衰衰轮回不已。

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For a long long time, people there led a peaceful life and stood aloof from worldly affairs.

在漫长的岁月里，人们过着与世无争的平静生活。

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Though some worldly affairs still remained in Meng Suncai's concern, he is fairly thorough in practice.

孟孙才对世俗之事是还有一些没有割舍掉，可是他已经做的相当彻底了。

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He is under some kind of divine edict and it is precisely his devotion to this divine command, to this particular kind of calling that has led him to neglect his worldly affairs.

他深受某种,神明勒令的指示,也确是他对神明指示，对这种特殊召唤的虔诚,引导他忽视身旁的世俗杂事。

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Some feared that immersion in worldly affairs would taint clerics and end by repelling believers from the faith.

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Others, for example, painted scenes with poems and inscriptions that proclaimed a disengagement from worldly affairs while they in fact remained very much in the fray.

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