The Protestant Reformation, and especially the rising energies of Puritanism in the early seventeenth century, are beginning to do a lot to change this state of affairs.

新教宗教改革，尤其是活力不断上升的清教主义,在17世纪早期，为了改变这种状态开始做出许多努力。

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For a lot of Protestants in the early seventeenth century, the word chastitycould also be used to refer to the state of what could be called married chastity: - married chastity was a type of bodily purity that could be extended -- -- or a spiritual purity as well -- that could be extended even into marriage.

对早期17世纪的新教徒来说，贞节这个词也可以用来,表示婚姻贞节：,婚姻贞节是一种可以延伸的身体上的纯洁-,同样也是一种精神的纯洁-,那种纯洁甚至可以延伸至结婚以后。

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Indeed, arguably a modern military power, at least in the seventeenth and early eighteenth-century sense, and he injects European culture into Russia.

至少在十七世纪和十八世纪早期,它可以算是一个现代化的军事大国,同时 他将欧洲文化注入俄国

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The nativity of Christ, as you can imagine, was a popular subject for early seventeenth-century poets for pious early seventeenth-century poets.

基督诞生，你可以想象，对17世纪的诗人来说是很受欢迎的主题,特别是那些虔诚的17世纪的诗人。

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As early as the late seventeenth century, Milton had already entered what we can think of as the English literary canon.

早在17世纪末，弥尔顿就跻身,我们现在认为是英国文学经典的殿堂。

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The text into which any early modern seventeenth-century writer would jot his or her thoughts into, his reading notes, was always called a commonplace book.

他的阅读笔记,那是许多早期的十七世纪现代作家都会深深思考的笔记，它常常被称为一本普通的书。

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He was beginning to join ranks with those early seventeenth-century English Protestants who imposed upon themselves rigorous and strict codes of behavior and self-denial, and who were increasingly being called by their enemies Puritans.

他要开始加入,17世纪早期英国新教徒的行列,那些人把严格的行为准则和自我否认,强加到自己身上，还不断被敌人称为清教徒。

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