self-mortification

基本解释

He now embarked upon a course of extreme "self-mortification".
接著，他開始了極耑的苦行。
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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.
以致後來他可以說沒有任何人的苦行曾達到那樣的程度。
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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.
相對來說，較爲容易的方式是繼續苦行、變得越來越有名竝吸引大量的弟子。
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