“贞节”的英语可以翻译为： chastity or virginity, i.e. remaining chaste and faithful to one's husband or betrothed, even after his death, as demanded by the Confucian moral code，chasteness，chastity
有些宗教修会的男女保持贞节.People in some religious orders remain chaste.她对男女关系与其说是注重贞节,毋宁说是持身谨慎.She was sexually not so much chaste as prudish.迷迭香是贞节的象征.Rosemary is emblematic of constancy....