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Cromwell, meanwhile, stepped up his assault on the old religion

同时 克伦威尔对旧教开始了进一步攻击

with a series of fierce injunctions, enforcing royal supremacy and crushing the cult of saints and shrines.

他颁布了一系列法令 强制推行"王权之上" 打压圣人祭仪与圣祠

The Becket shrine in Canterbury, the richest in the land,was vandalised and ransacked.

最富裕的坎特伯雷的贝克特圣祠 也惨遭破坏并被洗劫一空

The following year, 1537,Henry, with a new wife, Jane Seymour,

次年 即1537年 亨利和他的新婚妻子珍·西摩尔

celebrated the longed for arrival of a son, Edward.

庆贺其期盼已久的儿子爱德华的诞生

But twelve days later, mourned the death of his new queen.

但新皇后仅12天后 便不幸去世

At Walsingham, the statue of the Virgin was burned.

在沃尔辛厄姆 圣母雕像被烧毁

Henry's account book for that year contains the following bald statement:

那年 亨利的收支账簿上 包含了如下记载

Payment for the king's great candle at Walsingham.Salary for the abbot - nil.

国王于沃尔辛厄姆的蜡烛支出 修道院院长支薪 无

But then, a remarkable thing happened.

但随后 发生了转机

The king decided enough was enough and tried to put the genie back in its bottle.

国王决定 已经够了 是时候适可而止了

An instinctive conservative,he'd been angered and alarmed by the passions that religious controversy had aroused.

出于本能的保守 他被宗教争论的狂热惹怒 并从中警醒

And he blamed the English Bible.

他将一切归咎于英文《圣经》

Instead of being read quietly with silence,the Bible was now being bandied about in acrimonious disputes that raged in ale houses and taverns,

曾经被虔诚默念的《圣经》 如今却被随意谈论 恶言亵渎诋毁 甚至在市井酒馆中引发唇枪舌战

the exact opposite of the respectful scenes promised in Cromwell's Great Bible.

这与克伦威尔的《大圣经》中 所许诺的毕恭毕敬截然相反

词汇解析

1、assault

猛攻;强攻

The rebels are poised for a new assault on the government garrisons.

叛军准备好要对政府驻军发起新一轮的猛攻。

Most US soldiers welcomed the ground assault when the order was finally given.

当命令最终下达的时候，大多数美军士兵都愿意发动地面进攻。

人身攻击；殴打；（身体）侵犯

The attack is one of a series of savage sexual assaults on women in the university area.

这次袭击是在大学校园内发生的一系列针对女性的野蛮性侵犯事件中的一起。

At the police station, I was charged with assault.

在警察局，我被指控殴打他人。

严厉抨击;强烈批评

He leveled a verbal assault against his Democratic opponents.

他猛烈抨击其民主党对手。

2、contain

装有;容纳

The bag contained a Christmas card.

这个包里装着一张圣诞卡。

Factory shops contain a wide range of cheap furnishings.

工厂车间里陈设着种类繁多的廉价家具。

包含;含有

Greek yogurt contains much less fat than double cream.

希腊酸奶比高脂浓奶油所含脂肪要少得多。

Many cars run on petrol which contains lead.

很多车使用含铅汽油。

(著作、讲话或电影中)包括，包含

This sheet contained a list of problems a patient might like to raise with the doctor.

这张单子列出了病人可能会向医生提出的一系列问题。

The two discs also contain two of Britten's lesser-known song-cycles.

这两张唱片还包含了布里顿两首不甚知名的声乐套曲。