His country life is not simply an escape from the worldly affairs but a period of introspection and comprehension of the significance of life.

他的这一乡居，并非逃离世事，而是静下心来体悟生命的意义。

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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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The lifestyle has been idealized by intellectual recluses, but the idiom itself has been expanded to mean a life free from worldly affairs.

这是学识满腹的隐士们所描绘的理想生活方式，现在泛指远离尘世喧嚣的生活。

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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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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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