And an old monk came to me and asked in a kind voice if I was hungry.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Purity is an idea for the yogi or the monk.

纯洁是属于瑜伽士或修道士的观念。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

You also do walking meditation, you can do mantra meditation, you can do all sorts of meditations that can be seen as a step towards maintaining the state of mindfulness at all points of your daily life, which is impossible unless you're a monk for a very long time.

还有行禅，曼怛罗冥想，你可以进行各种冥想修行,都可被视为正迈向,在日常生活的每时每刻,保持警醒，这几乎不可能实现,除非你是修行多年的僧侣。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

I still remember in my dreams at night the beautiful face of that old monk.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Appropriately enough, he was stabbed to death in a traffic jam in Paris when his carriage gets blocked in the center of Paris, and this mad monk sticks a big knife into him.

他是在巴黎拥挤的街道上被刀捅死的,这对他的一生真是绝妙的讽刺,当时他的马车被堵在巴黎市中心,有个疯狂的修士用一把大匕首捅死了他

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The song was written by the jazz great Thelonious Monk.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

I had never seen a real live monk before.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

They came back and said, 'Sure,that sounds like a good idea, but could you train a monk to bake while you are here?'

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

His personal favorites were albums by Miles Davis,Dave Brubeck, Count Basie and Thelonious Monk.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

He retired more than a decade ago to become a Buddhist monk but the Japanese government brought him out of retirement to bring JAL out of bankruptcy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

through the '40s and '50s with Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk;

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"When I found a medieval abbey in France that said they had been baking for 1300 years, but had lost the last monk who knew how to bake bread, I volunteered to come over and bake some bread for them.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16