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By the time that Anne came on the scene,Henry was convinced that his marriage to Catherine had been divinely cursed.

直到安妮进入了他的视线 亨利坚信他与凯瑟琳的婚姻被神所诅咒

The king was an assiduous reader of Scripture,

国王勤于研读《圣经》

and there must have been a sharp intake of breath every time he read Leviticus chapter 20, verse 21,

而每当他读到《利未记》第20章21节时 必会倒吸一口凉气

in which God himself tells Moses,If a man shall take his brother's wife,it is an unclean thing...they shall be childless.

上帝面授摩西 弟娶兄妻 为污秽的事 二人必无子嗣

Driven by his fear of dynastic extinction and his passion for Anne,who, as usual, refused to become his mistress,

因恐惧王朝香火断绝 又渴望得到不甘为情妇的安妮

Henry seized on divorce as the answer to all of his problems.

亨利把离婚视作一劳永逸的解决方案

Henry wanted a papal annulment of the marriage on grounds of incest.

亨利想让罗马教皇以乱伦为 宣布婚姻无效

But the Pope couldn't oblige,for in May 1527 the armies of the Emperor Charles V sacked Rome,and made Pope Clement a virtual prisoner.

但教皇却不帮忙 因在1527年5月 查理五世的军队攻陷罗马 使教皇克莱门特沦为阶下囚

And Charles, who was Queen Catherine's nephew,wouldn't allow an annulment while he was in control.

而查理 正是皇后凯瑟琳的侄子 在查理掌权时 绝不会废止这桩婚姻

Wolsey was the first to be dragged under by this crisis.

沃尔西是第一个被牵连进这场危机的人

Henry had no use for a Mr Fixit who couldn't fix it,and Wolsey was quickly got rid of,ostensibly for fraud and corruption.

亨利不需要一个无能的"万能管家" 沃尔西很快因欺诈和腐败的欲加之罪 被踢出了政坛

Within a year, he was dead, charges of high treason still hanging over his head.

不到一年 他便背负着叛逆的骂名撒手人寰

It was Anne herself who, at some point in 1530,steered the whole problem in a radically new direction.

在1530年 安妮自己 将问题引入了一个极端的新方向

She put literally into Henry's hands a little book that to her seemed not only fundamentally true,

她给了亨利一本小册子 册子的内容 在她看来不仅是真理

but also, given present circumstances, extremely useful.

更是对当时的处境大有裨益

It was by that arch-propagandist william Tyndale, and it was called

其作者为宗教改革的主要鼓吹者 威廉·廷代尔

"The Obedience of a Christian Man and How Christian Rulers Ought to Govern."

书名为《天主教信徒的顺从与君主的治理》

词汇解析

1、direction

方向;方位

St Andrews was ten miles in the opposite direction.

圣安德鲁斯在相反方向上 10 英里处。

He drove off in the direction of Larry's shop.

他驾车朝着拉里商店的方向驶去。

（发展）方向，趋势，倾向

They threatened to walk out if the party did not change direction.

他们威胁说，如果该党不改变方针，他们就将集体退席。

I've never done any sustained writing, but that might be one of my next directions.

我以前从未尝试过持续写作，不过那可能是我下一步努力的方向之一。

指示;说明;指路

I should know by now not to throw away the directions until we've finished cooking.

现在我知道了不该在饭没做完之前就扔掉烹饪说明。

He proceeded to give Dan directions to the computer room.

他接着告诉丹去计算机房该怎么走。

2、present

现在的；目前的

He has brought much of the present crisis on himself.

目前的大部分危机都是他自己引起的。

the government's present economic difficulties.

政府当前的经济难题

现在；目前；现状

his struggle to reconcile the past with the present.

他为协调过去和现在所付出的努力。

continuing right up to the present.

一直持续到现在

目前；现在；眼下

There is no way at present of predicting which individuals will develop the disease.

目前还没有办法预测谁会得这种病。

At present children under 14 are not permitted in bars.

目前，14岁以下儿童不允许进酒吧。