单词self-mortification
n.: 禁欲(主义)
网络: 禁欲等来治死罪；自我禁欲；自我苦行
禁欲(主义)
In those days it was popularly believed that you could attain Enlightment by means of self-mortification--the more extreme the better.
在那时候，人们普遍相信，通过苦行你可以觉悟--越极端越好。
Suffice it to say that he subsequently asserted that no one else had ever gone to such extremes of self-mortification.
以致后来他可以说没有任何人的苦行曾达到那样的程度。
Religious fanatics into self-mortification who have banded together to travel to the Holy Lands, armed with a mace.
苦修团为酷爱自虐的宗教狂热者，装备简陋钉头槌，踏上前往圣地旅途。
He now embarked upon a course of extreme "self-mortification" .
接着，他开始了极端的苦行。
He practiced a Middle Way between self-mortification and self- indulgence.
他实践了在自我禁欲与自我纵欲之间的中道。