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

由于需要坚固质地， 而不是刺绣或叠加装饰， 因美被义为对多余物净化。

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 生理宣泄理论进了激烈批评，该理论对 Herbert Spencer 和 Freud 工作产生了如影响。

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小船，岸上几个穿着精致金裤子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火洗礼。