what the hell is it talking aobut?

lawyer_1

The religious and experiential elements in the legal development of Polymouth merge more closely nowhere than in relation to the colonist idea as to the form in which law was to be expressed, in either seemingly unprecedented enthusiasm for the lex scripta, for codification.

该句主要有三个难点：一是倒装，二是抽象。三是比较对象（nowhere和than后面的in relation to the colonist, in enthusiam比）

直译意思为：在P的法律发展上，宗教因素和经验因素在涉及到殖民地居民有关法律表达方式的观念时，也在对成文法和法典化的表面的史无前例的热情中，结合得最密切。

[此贴子已经被作者于2005-5-1 20:00:36编辑过]

guihuaqiao

kill me directly,do not in this way please!

fredshen

"nowhere do the religious and experiential elements in the legal development of Polymouth merge more closely than in relation to the colonist idea as to the form in which law was to be expressed, in either seemingly unprecedented enthusiasm for the lex scripta, for codification."

Assume the citation is correct, this is how I look at it in breif.

The merge of religious and experiential elements mege most closely in terms of clonist's idea how law should be expressed because of the enthusiasm for codification.

Last part of the sentence is funny, since you would expect either ... or, anyways ...