It was really amazing, for everyone seemed in a heavenly frame of mind, and self–denial was all the fashion.

这真令人吃惊，因为每个人的思想似乎都升华了，自我忍让风行一时。

A demand so sudden and so serious made the young man hesitate a moment, for ridicule is often harder to bear than self–denial.

这个要求来得如此突然，如此严肃，使这个年轻人犹豫了片刻，因为如果食言而遭人奚落常常要比自我克制更难让人承受。

I think that's the urge that we deny it the whole time, it's like self denial is the area is not really happening to me will never happen to me.

- 我认为这是我们一直否认它的冲动，这就像自我否认是这个领域并没有真正发生在我身上，也永远不会发生在我身上。