self-mortification

常见例句

He now embarked upon a course of extreme "self-mortification".
接着，他开始了极端的苦行。
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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。
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It would have been easy, in comparison, to continue with his self-mortification, easy to become more and more famous, easy to attract great numbers of disciples.
相对来说，较为容易的方式是继续苦行、变得越来越有名并吸引大量的弟子。
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