Primarily, the precepts protect us from ourselves, from the suffering we cause others and ourselves when we act unskillfully.

主要原因在于，戒律能保护我们免于自我伤害，以及避免我们自己的不善行为带给自己或他人苦恼。

Having the natural feelings of a tradesman at finding that a job he should have been called in for had been unskillfully botched by his customers among themselves, he was disposed to say no.

他有一种生意人的自然感情，发现本应该把他叫去做的一件事情，却叫主顾们笨手笨脚地替他做了，心里想回答她说不一样。