The monks lived a very ascetic life.

僧侣过着很清苦的生活。

He is critical of the monks, whom he considers narrow-minded and self-righteous.

他对僧侣们颇有微词，认为他们心胸狭隘，自以为是。

Monks in orange robes offer flowers and food to the gods and produce haunting sounds on conch shells.

身穿橘袍的僧人向神灵献上鲜花和食物，并在海螺壳上发出萦绕不去的声音。

European monks would take a piece of clear rock, often quartz, and place it on top of the reading material.

欧洲的僧侣们会拿一块透明的石头，通常是石英，放在阅读材料的上面。

Lightning floodlights gnarled trees and a giant iron bell. Monks with umbrellas flit about in robes and slippers.

闪电泛光灯照亮了盘根错节的古树和一具庞大的铁钟。和尚们打着伞，穿着僧衣和拖鞋四处走动。

He had sent two Nestorian monks to Central Asia, and they were able to smuggle silkworm eggs to him hidden in rods of bamboo.

他派遣了两名内斯托里亚僧侣到中亚，他们能够将藏在竹竿中的蚕卵走私给他。

The Catholic Church had its seven daily prayers, one of which was at night, requiring an alarm arrangement to waken monks before dawn.

天主教会每天有七次祈祷，其中一次是在晚上，需要设置闹钟在黎明前叫醒僧侣。

A young boy gives me an umbrella and two monks lead me across the sandy courtyard past a stone pagoda towards the Hall of the White Lotus.

一个小男孩给了我一把伞，两个和尚领着我穿过沙院，经过一座石塔，来到白莲殿。

Written information was no longer the domain of monks with quill pens and hand-written books, and it was no longer confined to zealots in churches.

书面信息不再是僧侣们使用鹅毛笔和手抄书的所能掌握的，也不再仅限于教会的狂热信徒。

You can see some monks walking along the streets.

你可以看到一些僧侣在大街上走动。

In Spain, some monks saved Squanto and looked after him for three years.

在西班牙，一些僧侣救了斯宽托，并照顾了他三年。

Monks copied books by hand.

僧侣手抄书籍。

Monks don't have any money.

僧侣们又没有钱。

"First they are monks," says Wang.

“首先他们是僧人，”王说。

Dreadfully dull lives the monks live.

僧侣们的生活乏味得可怕。

Who are the monks in Athos?

阿陀斯的隐修士都是些什么样的人呢？

The monks bake bread by themselves.

面包是修士们自己烘烤的。

Also, the monks' graves were robbed.

此外，修士的坟墓也被盗了。

Monks file to prayer in the Shaolin Temple.

少林寺中的和尚们在列队祷告。

Two monks are on a day-long walk to a temple.

有一天，两个僧人长途跋涉要到一个寺院去。

Monks and warriors.

修士们和武士们。

The monks here practise Seon, or Zen Buddhism.

这里的和尚修炼的是禅宗佛教。

He went on to say "we are no brewers." We are monks.

他继续说到：“我们不是普通酿酒者，我们是修道士。”

Some reportssaid monks were also beaten and arrested.

有报道说僧侣们还遭到了殴打和逮捕。

Followers who want to marry with monks can also attend.

愿意与僧侣结婚的信徒们也可以参加。

Only the scholars and monks knew how to read and write.

只用学者和僧侣会阅读和写作。

I should have known that monks practice asceticism.

我应该知道和尚奉行禁欲主义，还好他没有生气。

People will forgive philanderers but not monks or priests.

大家可以原谅花花公子，但不会原谅和尚或神父。