他的严厉和强硬态度是出了名的。

He has a reputation for being tough and uncompromising.

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他的严厉吓跑了孩子们。

His severity scared the children away.

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但是他的严厉作风使他的敌人对他的失足感到震惊，也使人们无法为支持他继续留任做出任何努力。

But his abrasive style also made enemies who were stunned by his fall from grace but not prepared to support any attempt by him to stay in office.

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Milton can allow himself a literary indulgence in the rich sensuality of this passage because he has mastered the dread voice, he has mastered the fatherly sternness of Saint Peter.

他能够允许自己沉溺于这种丰富的感官享受中,因为他已经能够掌控了这种恐怖的声音，他能够处理圣彼得的父亲般的严厉。

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The English Revolution came about, in large part, because of King Charles' attempt to impose an alien religious conformity, as well as tighter political control on his kingdom.

接下来就是英国革命爆发,这主要是因为,查尔斯国王的努力,他施行异教统一制,同时在国内施行更加严厉的政治统治

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