The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

君主拥有绝对的权力,它高于所有的平民机构或是教会机构，支配着和平的国家。

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Well, I think one thing that's very helpful is for you to start to move, to move around to sway, tap your foot.

我觉得有一点会很有帮助,那就是你们跟着音乐动起来,跟着音乐摇摆或者用脚打拍子

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After the long sway of Theocritus' and Virgil's pastorals, ; of course Christianity entered the scene,a new dispensation; and Christianity began to load this pastoral literary tradition with its own set of associations.

在维吉尔等两人对田园诗的长久统治之后，基督教义作为新的统治思想兴起了;,并且开始以它自身的一套体系,附在田园诗的文学传统之上。

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