It's that they were using these deprivations of pleasures in order to train the body and train the soul.
而是他们想通过停止行乐，来磨练身体和灵魂。
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The material deprivations suffered by blacks under apartheid were bad enough. But the psychological damage is much deeper and more difficult to eradicate.
种族隔离之下，黑人们所遭受的物质剥削已经足够严厉，但是他们所受的精神摧残更为严酷也更难根除。
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Our extraordinary powers of adaptation appear to help explain why absolute living standards simply may not matter much once we escape the physical deprivations of abject poverty.