The pope said abstinence is the best way to fight the disease and he said distributing condoms "aggravates the problem."

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

He dismisses his brother's entirely practical argument, because for him chastity is a lot more than a simple exercise of sexual abstinence.

他推翻了他弟弟所有实际的论点，因为对他来说,贞节不仅仅是简单的禁止性欲。

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Orpheus had provided Milton with a paradigm of the poet, the poet whose discipline and whose abstinence nourished and strengthened his poetry.

俄耳甫斯在弥尔顿看来是诗人的模范,他严于律己，节制禁欲，让诗作更加出色。

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"They can just say they won't do it." "Abstinence-only sex education denies young women opportunity to have the knowledge they need to make their own informed decisions."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

He tries to defend his point of view by arguing in a famous passage that his policy of abstinence actually carries important benefits to the city.

他在其著名答辩中的立场,试图证明,其疏离策略,其实能为为城邦带来显著好处。

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Nobody would like abstinence and so on.

或者所有人都反对禁俗，等等。

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There's also another transition that he's making, and this involves the subject of virginity: not a speechlessness, but his actual abstinence.

他还做了另一个转变，这涉及到童贞的话题：,不是哑口无言，而是他实际的节制。

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For both John of the book of Revelation and for John Milton, it's the superior male of the species that's been singled out for the glorious practice of sexual abstinence.

对约翰的《启示录》和弥尔顿来说，是男人在人类中的优越地位,让禁欲的实行被挑选出来了。

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This isn't sexual abstinence that the Lady's pointing to.

女士指向的并不是性禁欲。

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When he says that his way of life has been private, he means that he has pursued a policy of, let's call it "the principled abstinence " from public life."

当他提到自己的生活方式是私密的时候，他所提的是他追求一种策略，我们可以称之为，“原则性疏离,公共生活“

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