请教prep阅读中的一句话翻译

lxw19

Essay #6.145(21972-!-item-!-188;#058&00145-00)

Colonial historian David Allen's intensive study of five communities in seventeenth-century Massachusetts is a model ofmeticulous scholarship（极其细致的学术研究）on the detailed microcosmic（微观的） level, and is convincing up to a point.Allen suggests that much more coherence（条理性，一致性） and direct continuity existed between English and colonial agricultural practices and administrative organization than other historians have suggested.However, he overstates his case with the declaration that he has proved "the remarkable extent to which diversity in New England local institutions was directly imitative of regional differences in the mother country."

Such an assertion ignores critical differences between seventeenth-century England and New England.First, England was overcrowded and land-hungry; New England was sparsely populated and labor-hungry.Second, England suffered the normal European rate of mortality; New England, especially in the first generation of English colonists, was virtually free from infectious diseases.Third, England had an all-embracing state church; in New England membership in a church was restricted to the elect.Fourth, a high proportion of English villagers lived under paternalistic resident squires（地主，乡绅）; no such class existed in New England.By narrowing his focus to village institutions and ignoring these critical differences, which studies by Greven, Demos, and Lockridge have shown to be so important, Allen has created a somewhat distorted picture of reality.

Allen's work is a rather extreme example of the "country community" school of seventeenth-century English history whose intemperate excesses in removing all national issues from the history of that period have been exposed by Professor Clive Holmes.What conclusion can be drawn, for example, from Allen's discovery that Puritan clergy who had come to the colonies from East Anglia were one-third to one-half as likely to return to England by 1660 as were Puritan ministers from western and northern England?We are not told in what way, if at all, thisdiscoveryilluminates historical understanding.Studies of local history have enormously expanded our horizons, but it is a mistake for their authors to conclude that village institutions are all that mattered, simply because their functions are all that the records of village institutions reveal.

请问绿底的那句话应该怎么翻译？下面的18题就是根据那句话得出的，答案选A，但我读不懂，谢谢NN，

Question #18.145-05(22064-!-item-!-188;#058&000145-05)

The passage suggests that Professor Clive Holmes would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

(A) An understanding of seventeenth-century English local institutions requires a consideration of national issues.

(B) The "country community" school of seventeenth-century English history distorts historical evidence in order to establish continuity between old and new institutions.

(C) Most historians distort reality by focusing on national concerns to the exclusion of local concerns.

(D) National issues are best understood from the perspective of those at the local level.

(E) Local histories of seventeenth-century English villages have contributed little to the understanding of village life.

edwardelric

Allen's work is a rather extreme example of the "country community" school of seventeenth-century English history whose intemperate excesses in removing all national issues from the history of that period have been exposed by Professor Clive Holmes
allen 的工作是一个相当极端的关于17世纪史上的"country community" 学派的一个例子，他的翻译移除了那个时期来自于professor clive holmes 曝光的全部国家文件.

edwardelric

不对是应该这么翻译~
allen 的工作是一个相当极端的关于17世纪史上的"country community" 学派的一个例子，他的翻译移除了来自于那个时期的全部国家文件，已经被professor clive holmes 曝光

lxw19

Thank u so much~~