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To squab Cromwell, he was a pain in the neck,a dangerous loudmouth,

对羽翼未丰的克伦威尔来说 他是心腹大患 是极具威胁的煽动者

capable of wrecking discipline in the army.

甚至可能动摇军心

Lilburne, for his part, detested the new regime.

至于李尔本 他痛恨新政权

All you intended when you set us fighting

你鼓动我们投身战斗的意图

was mainly to unhorse and dismount our old riders and tyrants so that you might get up and ride in their stead.

不过是要推翻暴君 削弱原有骑士的力量 好壮大你自己 坐上他们的宝座

The soldiers read Freeborn John and believed they should have a vote.

士兵们读了"自由的李尔本"的著作 认定他们应当有投票权

Give them an inch and they take a mile

得寸进尺之间

and, pretty soon, they'd start believing their officers were the tyrants

他们很快就相信了 他们的长官正是

Lilburne and the Levellers said they were.

李尔本和其它平等主义者口中的暴君

They had to be stopped.An army was not, repeat not, a commune.

必须阻止他们 军队不是 绝对不是 人人平等的世界

I tell you, you have no other way to deal with these men,but to break them or they will break you.

告诉你们 对付这些人没有别的办法 要么揭竿而起 要么束手就擒

Yea, and bring all the guilt of the blood and treasure

是他们让你们一生背负着屠杀手足同胞

shed and spent in this kingdom upon your heads and shoulders

和挥霍国家财富的罪名

and frustrate and make void all that work that with so many years' industry, toil and pains you have done.

让你们多年来 历尽千辛万苦 所积累的成果 前功尽弃

I tell you again, you are necessitated to break them.

我再说一遍 你们必须战胜他们

Off to the Tower went the Leveller leaders like so many traitors.

平等派的领袖们被作为卖国贼 关进了伦敦塔

But then something astounding happened.

然而不可思议的事发生了

词汇解析

1、discipline

训练;纪律;风纪

Order and discipline have been placed in the hands of headmasters and governing bodies.

维持秩序和纪律的工作已交接给了校长和管理机构了。

discipline problems in the classroom.

课堂纪律问题

训练;磨炼

inner disciplines like transcendental meditation.

内省，如冥思静坐

The discipline of studying music can help children develop good work habits.

音乐学习中的训练可以帮助孩子们培养好的工作习惯。

惩罚;处罚;处分

The workman was disciplined by his company but not dismissed.

那个工人受到了公司的处罚，但并没有被解雇。

Her husband had at last taken a share in disciplining the boy.

她的丈夫最后也加了进来一起教训那个男孩。

2、frustrate

使灰心;使沮丧;使愤怒

These questions frustrated me.

这些问题让我沮丧。

Doesn't it frustrate you that audiences in the theatre are so restricted?

观众在剧场里要受到如此多的限制，这难道不令人恼火吗？

挫败;阻挠…的成功

The government has deliberately frustrated his efforts to gain work permits for his foreign staff.

政府故意阻挠他为自己的外籍员工申请工作许可证的努力。

her frustrated attempt to become governor.

她竞选州长的受挫之举