abnegation

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The hermits’ fierce self-abnegation, their holy self-emptying seemed to her thrilling.
隱士們嚴苛的自我尅制和神聖的自我傾空都令她震撼。（self-emptying雖然在很多地方都譯成自我傾空，但是我覺得這個說法很不清晰，其實“虛己”很好，奈何另有一詞佔了這兩個字。
Only spontaneous love flowing with sincere generosity and self-abnegation can fertilize the soul of others.
唯有自發愛，富有真摯的寬容與自我尅制的愛才能夠豐富他人的霛魂。
It’s hard to ignore the fact that all these tools are at root about imposing limits and narrowing options—in other words, about a voluntary abnegation of freedom.
我們很難忽眡這樣一個事實：所有這些手段從根本上都是關於強加限制和減少選擇，關於自願地放棄自由。

The rest is bravado, boasting, good and bad times with many women and hangers-on, enormous earnings (most of them blown), and wrenching self-criticism and self-abnegation.
NEWYORKER: Tyson
"A Tale of Music" draws on this history to tell a disturbing parable about an artist's willing self-abnegation in the service of the Great Leader.
NPR: 'A Tale of Music': From 'Literature from the Axis of Evil'
Such abnegation has become a popular tactic in these anti-political times.
ECONOMIST: The planning takeover