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To the dismay of the reformers,these core Catholic beliefs turned out to be Henry's, too.

改革者们沮丧地发现 亨利本人也是 这些天主教核心教义的笃信者

So Henry's final position on matters of religion was this:

而亨利对于宗教事宜的最终决定是

A national Church divorced from Rome,but remarried to the English crown,

英国国教脱离罗马教廷 听命于英国国王

stripped of cults and shows,but still in essence Catholic.

去掉了一些祭仪 但本质上仍信奉天主教

All things considered,Henry was pretty satisfied with the middle way he thought he'd found.

纵观大局 亨利十分满意 自认为找到了两全的办法

Which is what we see in this massive picture from the studio of Hans Holbein.

正如这幅汉斯·荷尔拜因画室的 巨幅油画所描述的一样

King Henry, all-powerful, all-knowing,the guardian and ruler of the temporal and the spiritual realm.

全知全能的亨利 世俗与教会的 统御和维护者

The munchkins grovelling at his feet are the Guild of Barber-Surgeons.

在他脚下卑躬屈膝的小人物们隶属医生协会

They hail the king as the healer and a great physician,

他们高呼国王是伟大的治愈者

which is just how Henry liked to see himself in his final years

亨利在晚年也是这样看待自己的

the Tudor medicine man who had laid the body of England on the operating table

都德王朝的治愈者 将整个英格兰置于手术台上

and cut out the cancers of popery and superstition.

祛除了天主教会和迷信这些痼疾

The patient was now fully recovered,the nation duly grateful,The operation a complete success.

英国现已痊愈 国家一切安好 手术完美成功

Except, of course, it wasn't,because after Henry would come Henry's children,

但事实并非如此 亨利会将王权传给他的子嗣

each with their own idea of what was best for the country's health

而他们各自 对国家未来的方向持不同见解

Edward, the heir apparent,and his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth,both of whom were restored to the succession a few weeks before their father's death.

王储爱德华 和其同父异母的姐姐们 玛丽和伊丽莎白 都在亨利死前数周 获得王位继承权

词汇解析

1、turn out

(以某种方式)发生;最后是;结果是

If I had known my life was going to turn out like this, I would have let them kill me.

如果我早知道自己的人生结局会是如此，我当时宁愿让他们杀了我。

Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to.

有时事情并不像我们认为的那样发展。

原来是;结果发现

Cosgrave's forecast turned out to be quite wrong.

科斯格雷夫的预测最后证明是大错特错。

It turned out that I knew the person who got shot.

结果发现我认识那个中枪的人。

(尤指把某人从其长期居住处)撵走，赶出,逐出

Surely nobody would suggest turning him out of the house.

当然不会有人建议把他从房子里赶出去。

They were turned out of the hotel

他们被赶出了旅馆。

2、recover

恢复健康；复原

He is recovering from a knee injury.

他的膝伤正在康复。

A policeman was recovering in hospital last night after being stabbed.

一名警员昨夜被刺伤之后入院进行康复治疗。

（从不开心或不愉快的经历中）恢复，复原

a tragedy from which he never fully recovered.

他一直未能完全从中走出的悲剧

Her plane broke down and it was 18 hours before she got there. It took her three days to recover.

她乘坐的飞机出了故障，18个小时后她才到达那里。之后她花了3天时间才完全恢复过来。

（从弱势或困境中）好转，扭转，恢复

He recovered from a 4-2 deficit to reach the quarter-finals.

他在2比4落后的情况下实现逆转闯进1/4决赛。

The stock-market index fell by 80% before it began to recover.

股市指数下跌了80%后才开始反弹。