Since firm texture is what is wanted, not embroidery or superposed ornament, beauty has been well defined as the purgation of superfluities.

由于需要坚固的质地， 而不是刺绣或叠加的装饰， 因此美被明确定义为对多余物的净化。

3 Janko engages in a vigorous critique of Bernays's physiological theory of catharsis as purgation, which was so influential on the work of Herbert Spencer and Freud.

3 Janko 对 Bernays 的生理宣泄理论进行了激烈的批评，该理论对 Herbert Spencer 和 Freud 的工作产生了如此大的影响。

We clambered unsteadily into a small rocking boat, as, on shore, a handful of handsome young boys in elaborate gold pantaloons held up five-armed oil-lamps and began practicing the purgation by fire they'd ritually perform that night.

我们摇摇晃晃地爬进一艘摇摇晃晃的小船，岸上几个穿着精致金裤子的年轻英俊男孩举着五支油灯，开始练习当天晚上仪式上要进行的火洗礼。