英语语法分析

The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

君主对平民和教会的所有机构拥有绝对的权力，统治着一个和平的王国。

My ambition was to travel upwards in the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

我的雄心是在基督教会体系内步步高升。

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Now this was not an official ecclesiastical authority.

但这不是正式的教会权威。