It is a little thing to starve to death; it is a serious matter to lose one's virtue.

饿死是小事一桩;失去美德是一件很严重的事情。

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Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

原教旨主义者对家庭的明显解体、确定性的消失和道德的堕落感到恐慌。恐惧使他们问,如果我们不能相信圣经,我们能相信什么?

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

在花园门口总是有道德的土狼,在街道的尽头总是有真正的狼。