He would gladly have traded dozens -he would have traded dozens of corrupt Anglican ministers for the simple and honest King.

他可以欣然的,他可以出卖大量的圣公会牧师的头衔，并从中牟利,只是为了一个诚实简单的国王。

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So priests, ministers or pastors -- we still call them pastors -had long been referred to as shepherds.

因此牧师，神官或教会牧师-我们仍然这样叫他们,很长一段时间都以牧羊人来代指。

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And so it seemed a natural move for early Christian writers to use this existing pastoral form when they wanted to speak on subject of priests or ministers or affairs of the church.

于是用现存的田园诗来谈论,关于牧师或教堂事务的话题,成了早期基督派作家非常自然的转变。

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They came to stand for ministers, they came to signify allegorically ministers as well.

也开始作为神职人员的代表出现，他们非常讽喻性的代表着那些神职人员。

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They're corrupt not only as ministers but they are also corrupt as poets.

他们不仅是作为牧师，甚至作为诗人，都非常腐败。

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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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You'll note -- and there's no reason you need to read more of this, but the Hughe edition only includes a small portion of the actual pamphlet So this treatise as a whole is Milton's defense of these six Presbyterian ministers who wrote a treatise criticizing the authoritarian structure of the English church.

你们会注意到，没有理由你们要读更多这些内容，但休斯版只选录了小册子的一部分,所以这个论文整体来说就是,弥尔顿对五个长老部长的辩护,回击一篇批判英国教会的独裁机构的论文。

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In a particularly vicious critique of so-called Smectymnuus, an anonymous Anglican opponent attacked not only these six Presbyterian ministers but attacked Milton as well.

在对所谓的Smectymnuus的特别恶毒批评中，一个匿名的圣公会反对者,不仅对6个长老部长进行了抨击，也抨击了弥尔顿。

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