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We come by the assistance of God

我们得上帝所助

to hold forth and maintain the lustre and glory of English liberty in a nation where we have an undoubted right to it.

来争夺和捍卫英国自由的光辉与荣耀 在这个国度 我们无疑拥有这样做的权利

This is absolutely authentic Oliver Cromwell and today it makes for unbearable reading.

这完全是奥利弗·克伦威尔亲口所言 而今看起来却不堪入目

No, it's not the confession of a genocidal lunatic.

这并不是承认他是一位实行种族屠杀的疯子

It is the confession of a narrow-minded,

但确说明 他是一位思想狭隘的

pig-headed Protestant bigot and English imperialist,and that surely is bad enough.

顽固执迷的新教徒和英格兰统治者 这点糟糕至极

Cromwell treated Ireland like the primitive colony he thought it was,

克伦威尔对待爱尔兰 就像他对待殖民地的方式一样

moving the native Irish off their farms and using the land to pay his soldiers.

把本土的爱尔兰人从农场赶走 用这些土地作为士兵的奖赏

Before he could finish his pacification,if that's what he thought it was,

在他平定这块疆土之前 当然是他自以为平定

another piece of unquiet Britain rose up to mock him.

另一群不列颠人的反抗 让他颜面扫地

For the Scots had invited the 20-year-old Charles II to come and be their king and went to war on his behalf.

苏格兰人邀请二十岁的查理二世 成为苏格兰国王 并以他的名义宣战

Cromwell lured them into England in the summer of 1651.

1651年夏 克伦威尔诱其进兵英格兰

The Scottish army found itself caught between two massively bigger forces.

苏格兰军队发现他们 被两支大军包围

At the Battle of Worcester, on the 3rd September,it went down to a ruinous and irreversible defeat.

9月3日 伍斯特大战 苏格兰人一溃千里 大败而归

词汇解析

1、maintain

维持;保持

The Department maintains many close contacts with the chemical industry.

这个部门与化工行业保持着众多密切的联系。

Push yourself to make friends and to maintain the friendships.

要求自己与人交友并保持友谊。

断言;宣称;坚称

He has maintained that the money was donated for international purposes.

他坚称这笔捐款将用于国际用途。

Prosecutors maintain no deal was made.

原告坚持说不存在任何交易。

保持，维持（在某一比率或水平上）

The government was right to maintain interest rates at a high level.

政府维持高利率的做法是正确的。

action is required to ensure standards are maintained at as high a level as possible.

要求采取行动确保标准维持在尽量高的水平上。

2、primitive

原始的；远古的；未开化的

studies of primitive societies.

对原始社会的研究

primitive tribes.

原始部落

（动植物）原始的，低等的，进化初期的

primitive whales.

原始鲸

Primitive humans needed to be able to react like this to escape from dangerous animals.

原始人必须要能作出这样的反应以逃避危险的动物。

古老的；简陋的

The conditions are primitive by any standards.

无论用什么标准来衡量，其条件都很简陋。

The primitive surgery of those days left him virtually deaf in one ear.

那时候简陋的外科手术让他一只耳朵几乎失聪。