For instance, by ascribing a happy marriage, paternal benevolence or filial piety to fate, one may avoid arousing self-reproach or envy in unhappily married couples or unfilial children, which might destroy harmony; by doing so one can also display modesty and thus earn social approval.
諸如：把婚姻的圓滿、父慈子孝歸諸於緣，就可以避免怨偶或不孝子的自責或忌妒，而破壞人際關係的和諧；再者，又可表現自己謙虛的美德，而獲得社會的稱讚。