self-denial

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It's a given that self-denial can be frustrating. But who knew it could make me prefer to watch Fight Club again.
衆所周知，自我否定讓人沮喪。但誰知道，它還能給“搏擊俱樂部”帶來更多的觀衆呢！
No wonder, then, that they resent seeing the fruits of their own self-denial being used to pay for everyone else’s self-indulgence.
毫無疑問，他們不希望看到通過他們自我犧牲取得的成就爲其他所有人的放縱行爲買單。
Ireland, meanwhile, is often cited as a country where public-sector workers have reacted to a sharp downturn with impressive self-denial.
同時，愛爾蘭是在說到公共部門職員因爲自我否定而數量減少時最常引用的一個國家。

The religious group valued self-denial and community service.
What's the point of all of this study, all of this work, ?" all of this self-denial if I could just wind up" ? - this is a good question -- if I could just wind up dead tomorrow?
要是我就要死了，這所有的學習，努力，自我尅制還都有什麽意義“,-這是個好問題--要是我明天就死了呢？
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
All of the self-discipline and all of the self-denial in the world can do nothing -- this seems to be one of the implications of this poem - can do nothing to protect the poet from an untimely death.
所有的自律和自我尅制,都無能爲力--這似乎是《利西達斯》的含義之一,-所有這些都無法避免這位詩人的早逝。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

She found something saintly and crazed in his undertaking, an element of self-denial, an element of penance.
NEWYORKER: Laureate of Terror

the act of not taking or having something that you would like because you think it is good for you not to have it

Self-denial is the habit of refusing to do or have things that you would like, either because you cannot afford them, or because you believe it is morally good for you not to do them or have them.

自我否定
The concept of female subordination often leads to women’s self-denial and the teaching of female reticence tends to enable women to accept their fate with resignation.
順從就導致了婦女的自我否定，沉默就使得女人聽天由命。
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