the only person who could read in many villages,

牧师常常是村子里唯一识字的人
and his reading knowledge would be basically limited to the bible,

而他阅读的范围常常仅限于圣经
repeating things that he'd been trained to say.

重复着他作为牧师要说的话
But the church and the teaching Sisters, the nuns,

但教会和负责教书的修女们
really dominate, in many parts of France,

在法国的很多地方真正控制着教育
in places that were still practicing that old-time religion,

在那些仍然遵循着旧式的宗教的地方
dominate education.

教会控制着当地的教育
Now, in 1833 a law comes along

而在1833年颁布了一条法律
called the Guizot Law.

叫做基佐法
Guizot was a Protestant from Nimes.

基佐是一个尼姆的新教徒
He was not what the French would call rigolo,

他并不是个rigolo[法:爱说笑的人]
he was not a very happy-go-lucky guy

他并不随和