But neither did we touch again on what Raffles professed to have forgotten—my " apostasy, " my " lapse into virtue, " as he had been pleased to call it.

但我们也没有再次触及莱佛士声称已经忘记的东西——我的“叛教” ，我的“堕入美德” ，他乐于这样称呼它。

In the very word is something from which we shrink; it seems to signify nothing less than a national apostasy, a denial of the faith in which we won our glory.

就在字里行间是我们畏缩的东西；这似乎无非是表示全国性的叛教，是对我们赖以赢得荣耀的信仰的否定。

If a woman were among the guests of Northmour, it would show a change in his habits and an apostasy from his pet theories of life, well calculated to fill me with surprise.

如果一个女人是诺斯莫尔的客人之一， 这将表明他的习惯发生了变化， 并背离了他所钟爱的生活理论， 精心设计让我感到惊讶。