1. Also, the period saw an outpouring of repressive or overtly misogynist sermons, tracts, and plays, detailing women’s physical and mental defects, spiritual evils, rebelliousness, shrewish ness, and natural inferiority to men.
[結構簡析] 這是一種句型,年代,時間+see, find 等動詞+賓語。
[參考譯文] 這一時期出來許多約束或明顯反對婦女的布道(教義),小冊子和戲劇,詳細地描述了婦女精神上和肉體上的缺陷,精神罪惡,叛逆,兇狠,天生低于男人的品性。
2. Such texts encouraged some women to claim the support of God the supreme patriarch against the various earthly patriarchs who claimed to stand toward them in his stead.
[結構簡析] in one’s stead 代替某人。
[參考譯文] 這樣的版本鼓勵有些婦女去尋求最高家長,上帝的支持,以對抗各種各樣凡間家長,他們聲稱替代上帝對付她們。