the fear of physical mutilation and moral perdition对身体残缺和道德毁灭的恐惧

They were eager to save me from the perdition into which I had fallen.他们渴望拯救我于水火之中。

He tempted them into what amounts to a national government and put everybody on the same road to perdition.他诱惑他们加入实际意义上的国民政府, 把大家都引向了自我毁灭之路。