英国国教

Under the rule of the established church the people of England had lapsed into a state of religious declension hardly to be distinguished from heathenism.

当时英国的人民在国教的管理之下，已经渐渐陷到宗教堕落的地步，甚至他们的宗教与异教几乎没有什么分别。

Dissent used to be strong in this part of England.

在英国的这一地方过去曾激烈反对国教。

Old Testament themes inspired his Jeremiah and Kaddish Symphonies (the Kaddish is a Hebrew prayer for the dead); his Chichester Psalms were written for the Anglican cathedral at Chichester, England; and he wrote a rock Mass/theater piece for the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

旧约全书的内容激发他写下耶米利和迦底什交响曲（内容是西伯来人为死者的祷文）；奇切斯特圣歌是为英国奇切斯特国教大教堂（the Anglican cathedral at Chichester）写的，他还为D.C。华盛顿肯尼迪中心的开幕式创作了摇滚风格的弥撒。

Even at this early stage, however, the resistance of Nonconformists, especially Presbyterians and Roman Catholics, shortly defeated the attempt to "establish" Church of England institutions.

但是就是在这个时期的早期阶段，仍然有不信奉国教者的存在。特别是长老会和罗马天主教，很快打破了&建立&英国教会机构的企图。

Because of a purely religious difference of opinion, the Puritans began to become alienated from the broad body of the Anglican Church.

清教徒与英国占主导地位的国教的分离纯属宗教观点的分歧。

Moreover, even in England, the Church of England is only a minority.

此外。即使在英国，国教也是少数派。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。