I am going to end the session somewhat earlier, as I am initiating you into new material.

我打算提前结束这一节，因为我开始跟你们讲新资料了。

From whichsoever of these motives it might be, true it is, that many of them came over to our religion, and were initiated into it by baptism.

不管这些动机中的哪一个可能是真实的，他们中的许多人都皈依了我们的宗教，并且是通过洗礼开始接受它的。

At age 18, a Spartan youth would then be initiated into adulthood through a practice called the Krypetia- a ritual seen as barbaric and brutal by the rest of the civilized world.

在 18 岁时， 斯巴达青年将通过一种称为 Krypetia 的习俗进入成年期— —一种被其他文明世界视为野蛮和残忍的仪式。