Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.

弗兰尼又清了喉咙，他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众，为什么，她问。

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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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