As I've suggested before, his more conservative contemporaries were appalled by the proliferation of religious sects in mid-seventeenth-century England.

这如我以前所说，他的保守的同辈人,因17世纪中期英格兰迅速增多,的宗教派系而惊恐。

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He's actually enacting, and he's enacting it rhetorically, the fragmentation of religious culture in seventeenth-century England.

他实际上在演绎，用他的修辞在演绎，17世纪英格兰破碎的宗教文化。

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In the time we're starting this course in the seventeenth century, besides London, which is this gigantic place, the biggest cities in England were Norwich and Exeter, and York in the north.

我们这节课的起始年代,即十七世纪,除了伦敦这个巨型的城市,英国最大的城市是诺里奇和埃克塞特,以及北部的约克

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