Laud took his mission as the head of the Church of England to be the squelching of this Puritan opposition.

劳德以其身为英国大主教的特权,极力打压着清教徒的反抗。

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The corrupt clergy of today, under the malign influence of the horrible Archbishop Laud, are interested only in satisfying their own greed.

如今腐败的牧师们，在可憎的大主教劳德的恶意中伤下，只关心满足他们自己贪婪的口腹之欲。

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In 1633, William Laud had been appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury, and he had been granted an extraordinary set of arbitrary powers of suppression, actually, by the monarch.

633年，威廉劳德被任命为坎特伯雷大主教，并被赋予了一项特别的专职权利,即国王赋予他的镇压权。

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So under Archbishop Laud, only the official liturgy could be recited in church.

因此在大主教劳德的淫威下，只有官方的礼拜时能够在教堂里被吟诵。

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