他们属于更加克己的上一代人。They belong to an older, more self-denying generation.封斋期是 克己 的时期.Lent is a time of self - denial.在这一带山区,我们不需要任何英雄般的克己的公民.We do not want any citizens full of heroic resignation in these hills....

“克己的”的英语可以翻译为：self-denying ...