Monasticism knows that human beings are pathetically prone to distraction.

修道主义知道人类很容易分心。

So, monasticism, which involves unmarried people working and living together in highly organized communities, can seem very marginal and odd.

因此，涉及未婚人士在高度组织化的社区中一起工作和生活的修道院主义看起来非常边缘和奇怪。

It had not occurred to him to picture women at Shangri-La; one did not associate their presence with the general practice of monasticism.

他没想过在香格里拉描绘女人；人们没有将他们的存在与修道院的一般做法联系起来。

We may not have anything particularly against monasticism, but it can seem just very unusual, something that might work for a very few individuals without being relevant to the lives of most people today.

我们可能没有什么特别反对修道主义的东西， 但它看起来很不寻常，可能对极少数人有用， 但与当今大多数人的生活无关。

Even if we're not planning on setting up a secular version of a monastery anytime soon, the history of monasticism deserves to be studied for the lessons it can yield about the limits to modern individualism.

即使我们不打算很快建立一个世俗版本的修道院，修道院的历史也值得研究， 因为它可以得出关于现代个人主义局限性的教训。

The list can seem like a huge denial of individual liberty, but Benedict's contributions to the history of monasticism is his faith in the benefit of extensive, explicit and detailed rules to which members voluntarily agree.

这份清单似乎是对个人自由的极大否定，但本尼迪克特对修道院历史的贡献是他相信成员自愿同意的广泛、明确和详细的规则会带来好处。