The act of preaching sermons for Puritans was becoming more important, actually, than following the ceremonial rituals of the Church of England.

训诫对于清教徒而言愈发的重要，实际上，甚至比英国教会的宗教仪式更为重要。

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And the most important has to do with the nature of the act that leads to the transformation of the human characters.

最重要的一点，是人类听从欲望的驱使,导致了本性的变化。

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Moderation is this wonderfully great important thing for the Greeks.You must act in moderation.

谦卑对希腊人来说是很重要的品质,人必须表现得谦逊

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Present participles in general in Areopagitica being probably the most important form of speech, the act of gathering him may be more pleasurable, more desirable, than actually having him fully reconstituted.

大体上，现在分词在《论出版自由》中演讲的最,主要的时态形式，收集他的行为可能比,拥有真正再拼凑起的他更让人满足，更让人有欲望。

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That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

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