then nobility and gentility is but vain and contemptible title

名门贵族的头衔便只是徒有虚名
in England and always hath been...

在英格兰这永远也无法改变
Preserve your estate if you will preserve your gentility

好好守住你的土地才能保住你高贵的出身
and nobility of blood,

和贵族的血统
which is nothing else but a descent of riches."

这一切仅仅只是财富的传承而已"
A frank recognition of the realities of the social structure.

这些话十分坦诚地描述了当时的社会结构
Okay. So noblemen and gentlemen possessed most landed property,

贵族和绅士们占有了绝大部分的土地
but of course they were only a tiny proportion of the population,

但是他们仅仅占总人口的极少数
probably something like 2%.

大于占2%
The other 98% were the "commonalty"

其余的98%是平民
and of these the majority lived in the countryside.

而且大多是居住在乡村
England in the 1520s, the earliest period for which

英格兰在十五世纪二十年代