Not because they had found some final peace or transcendence, but because they were so repulsed by what their lives had become -- in a word, cut off, or ugly.
并不是因为他们找到了 最终的安乐或者超越， 而是因为他们被他们 生命中的转折击退了—— 有一个词，也就是隔绝，丑陋。