This was of course a wild underestimate, but a radical notion nonetheless, and Buffon found himself threatened with excommunication for expressing it.

当然是大大地低估了；但是，是一种很激进的见解。布丰发现，要是把见解加以发表，他有被除教籍的危险。

The Pope precipitately thundered out excommunications against him, which so provoked King Henry, that he declared himself head of the Church, and drew after him all England into the unhappy change in which you see it.

教皇突然宣布对他除教籍，激怒了亨利国王，他宣布自己为教会领袖，并使整个英格兰都陷入了你所看到的不幸变化。

Therefore the reader must not suppose that Joan really put Robert de Baudricourt in her pocket in fifteen minutes, nor that her excommunication, recantation, relapse, and death at the stake were a matter of half an hour or so.

因此，读者千万不要以为琼真的分钟内将罗伯特·德·博德里古尔塞进了她的口袋，也不要以为她被除教籍、改过自新、旧病复发和死火刑柱上只是半个小时左右的事情。