By 1700, it's a constitutional monarchy in which the center of

到1700年它变为君主立宪制国家
political life was a permanently sitting elected parliament

议会成了政治体制的中心
and it's become not simply the Kingdom of England

而且它不单是英格兰王国还是英格兰
but the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

苏格兰威尔士爱尔兰的联合王国
In 1500, England was part of Catholic Christendom,

1500年英国是天主教会的一份子
practicing a very lively and vital form of late medieval

在中世纪的天主教中
Catholicism.

扮演着活跃并重要的角色
By 1700, the country was aggressively Protestant

到1700年该国已成为新教国家
with an established Church of England

新建立的英国圣公会
which could no longer contain

将各种
all the varieties of Protestant denominations

现存的新教教派之间的差异
which had emerged,

抹去