A Child's History of England.184

CHAPTER 33 ENGLAND UNDER CHARLES THE FIRST

Baby Charles became King Charles the First, in the twenty-fifth year of his age. Unlike his father, he was usually amiable in his private character, and grave and dignified in his bearing [举止]; but, like his father, he had monstrously exaggerated notions of the rights of a king, and was evasive [推诿的], and not to be trusted. If his word could have been relied upon, his history might have had a different end.

His first care was to send over that insolent [粗鲁的] upstart [新贵], Buckingham, to bring Henrietta Maria from Paris to be his Queen; upon which occasion Buckingham - with his usual audacity [胆大妄为] - made love to [追求] the young Queen of Austria, and was very indignant indeed with Cardinal Richelieu [黎塞留], the French Minister, for thwarting [阻挠] his intentions. The English people were very well disposed [wanting] to like their new Queen, and to receive her with great favour when she came among them as a stranger. But, she held the Protestant religion in great dislike, and brought over a crowd of unpleasant priests, who made her do some very ridiculous things, and forced themselves upon the public notice in many disagreeable ways [以许多令人不快的方式招致公众注意]. Hence, the people soon came to dislike her, and she soon came to dislike them; and she did so much all through this reign in setting the King (who was dotingly fond of her) against his subjects, that it would have been better for him if she had never been born.

dote: love sb very much, and show this by your actions

https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/12/making-love.html
Q: I've been reading a lot of Agatha Christie stories lately, and I've noticed that she uses the phrase "make love" to denote the earliest stages of a relationship - perhaps kissing, hugging, and so on. Now, it means a sexual relationship. Comment?

A: Yes, the verbal phrase "make love" has evolved, along with social and cultural attitudes about lovemaking. In its earliest days, the noun "love" referred to a feeling of affection or fondness or attachment. In its original meaning, the dictionary says, to "make love" meant to "pay amorous attention; to court, woo. Freq. with to." Although the phrase is still used this way, Oxford says the sense is now "somewhat" archaic. We'll end with an example from George Orwell's 1934 novel Burmese Days: "Why is master always so angry with me when he has made love to me?"

make love
a. to have sexual intercourse (with)
b. archaic to engage in courtship (with)

总结: make love to最早的意思向...示爱，所以用to，像give a rose to

Now, you are to [将要] understand that King Charles the First - of his own determination to be a high and mighty King not to be called to account by anybody, and urged on by his Queen besides - deliberately set himself to put his Parliament down and to put himself up. You are also to understand, that even in pursuit of this wrong idea (enough in itself to have ruined any king) he never took a straight course [路线], but always took a crooked one.

call to account: confront

六级/考研单词: amiable, grave, dignity, bearing, exaggerate, indignant, cardinal, disposition, dislike, priest, ridicule, notify, reign, fond, blog, lately, denote, hug, comment, evolve, noun, affection, dictionary, intercourse, engage, besides, deliberate, parliament, pursuit, ruin, confront