Laud took his mission as the head of the Church of England to be the squelching of this Puritan opposition.

劳德以其身为英国大主教的特权,极力打压着清教徒的反抗。

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The most outrageous action in Laud's crackdown was his move to ban -his attempt to ban preaching in churches.

他所做过的最骇人听闻的暴行,是企图在教堂里禁止布道训诫行为。

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Now we're going to play just a little bit of pop music-- Not too laud cause this really hipped up.

现在我们将放一段流行音乐,不要放得太响

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The corrupt clergy of today, under the malign influence of the horrible Archbishop Laud, are interested only in satisfying their own greed.

如今腐败的牧师们，在可憎的大主教劳德的恶意中伤下，只关心满足他们自己贪婪的口腹之欲。

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In 1633, William Laud had been appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he had been granted an extraordinary set of arbitrary powers of suppression, actually, by the monarch.

633年，威廉劳德被任命为坎特伯雷大主教，并被赋予了一项特别的专职权利,即国王赋予他的镇压权。

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So under Archbishop Laud, only the official liturgy could be recited in church.

因此在大主教劳德的淫威下，只有官方的礼拜时能够在教堂里被吟诵。

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those church officials essentially appointed by Archbishop William Laud, were replaced in the early 1640s by means of the success of the Puritan revolutionaries and were replaced by presbyters: ministers who were chosen by individual congregations.

那些教会的要员本质上都是罗得主教任命的，他在17世纪40年代被清教的革命者和,长老所取代：,就是被每个教会的会众选出的教会的牧师。

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