The most outrageous action in Laud's crackdown was his move to ban -his attempt to ban preaching in churches.

他所做过的最骇人听闻的暴行,是企图在教堂里禁止布道训诫行为。

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I'm preaching just as my father and just as all of my Cambridge classmates had advised me to do."

如我的父亲那样教导他们我的信仰,正如我的剑桥同学建议我去做的那样“

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Milton even claims that poetry is equal to preaching in its ability to move people, to get them to do something, to make things happen in the world.

弥尔顿甚至声称诗歌,就其打动人心鼓舞人和促进事务发展的能力而言，是和宗教平起平坐的。

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