This is a vitriolic tirade, and it gets ugly.

这是一场刻薄的长篇大论，并且变得异常丑陋。

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Without question he's the most terrifying of all of the mourners, and he gives an angry, powerful, vitriolic speech about the terrible state of England - the terrible state of the Church of England and, as a consequence, of the terrible state of England in 1637.

毫无疑问他是所有送葬者中最可怕的，他做了一番愤怒，有力，刻薄的讲话,大谈英格兰的糟糕状况,-1637年间英格兰教堂的糟糕状况，及由此产生的英格兰的糟糕状况。

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