For religious reasons, he would not end his marriage and divorce his wife.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

In 1716 and 1718 Alexis had taken his mother's side in the divorce and did not like the Latvian peasant second wife.

在一七一六年到一七一八年的离婚案中,阿列克谢站在了母亲这一边,他也不喜欢拉脱维亚乡下出身的第二任妻子

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The treatises that he had written in favor of the right to divorce for reasons of incompatibility in the earlier 1640s had scandalized his contemporaries and had especially scandalized his Puritan contemporaries on the left.

这些他在17世纪40年代早期所写的因为不能,相互容忍而离婚的权力,让当代人感到厌恶和反感,尤其让当代清教徒的左派反感。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"A divorce," repeated Ransie with a mournful shake of his head.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

The English Reformation, which begins with Henry VIII wanting to divorce and kill his various wives along the way, still had an awful lot to do with the resistance to the power of Rome and the power of the Catholic Church as an institution.

英国的宗教改革,自亨利八世开始,就是那个总爱离婚,且一辈子患有杀妻癖的君王,他仍然还要面对强大的罗马教廷,以及天主教会的反对与干涉

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选