A Child's History of England.226

The University of Oxford distinguished itself {sarcasm} on the very same day by pretending to believe that the accusation against Lord Russell was true, and by calling the King, in a written paper, the Breath of their Nostrils and the Anointed of the Lord [被上帝行过涂油礼的]. This paper the Parliament afterwards caused to be burned by the common hangman; which I am sorry for, as I wish it had been framed and glazed and hung up in some public place, as a monument of baseness for the scorn of mankind.

A hangman is a man whose job is to execute people by hanging them.

Next, came the trial of Algernon Sidney, at which Jeffreys presided [主持], like a great crimson toad, sweltering [feel extremely hot and uncomfortable] and swelling with rage. 'I pray God, Mr. Sidney,' said this Chief Justice of a merry reign, after passing sentence, 'to work in you a temper fit to go to the other world, for I see you are not fit for this.' 'My lord,' said the prisoner, composedly holding out his arm, 'feel my pulse, and see if I be disordered. I thank Heaven I never was in better temper than I am now.' Algernon Sidney was executed on Tower Hill, on the seventh of December, one thousand six hundred and eighty-three. He died a hero, and died, in his own words, 'For that good old cause in which he had been engaged from his youth, and for which God had so often and so wonderfully declared himself.'

If someone is composed, they are calm and able to control their feelings. If someone is mentally disordered, their mind is not working in a normal and healthy way.

1683年是明永历三十七年，清康熙二十二年。郑克塽于1683年9月5日向施琅投降。1684年，清廷在台湾设置一府三县，隶属于福建省。

台湾自古以来就是中国的领土，据西晋陈寿《三国志·吴志·孙权传》中记载，公元230年春，孙权派将军卫温、诸葛直率领万余名官兵“浮海求夷洲及澶州”。澎湖巡检司设治于1292年。1624年(天启四年)荷兰东印度公司军队登陆大员，开始占领台湾。1661年4月~1662年2月郑成功从荷兰侵略者手里收复了台湾。1894年日本发动甲午战争，翌年清政府战败被迫签订《马关条约》把台湾割让给日本。1945年8月15日，日本在二战中战败，宣布无条件投降，中国人民收复了台湾。

六级/考研单词: sarcasm, parliament, monument, scorn, mankind, execute, preside, swell, rage, pray, merry, reign, temper, pulse, engage, seldom, compose, norm, heal