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更始帝，《纪》记载他作为汉朝的宗室灭掉王莽，在位二年。
更始帝，著《纪》，以汉宗室灭王莽，即位二年。
Emperor Gengshi, according to the 《纪》, overthrew Wang Mang as a Han dynasty royal relative and reigned for two years.
<s>[INST] Analyze the grammatical structure of the following Classical Chinese sentence and provide its English translation: 更始帝，著《纪》，以汉宗室灭王莽，即位二年。 [/INST] Grammatical analysis: The sentence has three clauses, connected by commas. The first clause, “更始帝，著《纪》”, introduces Emperor Gengshi as the subject and "composed the 《纪》" as the verb-object construction. The second clause, “以汉宗室灭王莽”, has “以汉宗室” as the prepositional phrase modifies the verb “灭王莽”, meaning “overthrew Wang Mang as a Han dynasty royal relative”. The third clause, “即位二年”, has “即位” as the verb and “二年” as the duration complement, meaning “reigned for two years”. English translation: Emperor Gengshi, according to the 《纪》, overthrew Wang Mang as a Han dynasty royal relative and reigned for two years.</s>
Analyze the grammatical structure of the following Classical Chinese sentence and provide its English translation: 更始帝，著《纪》，以汉宗室灭王莽，即位二年。
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Grammatical analysis: The sentence has three clauses, connected by commas. The first clause, “更始帝，著《纪》”, introduces Emperor Gengshi as the subject and "composed the 《纪》" as the verb-object construction. The second clause, “以汉宗室灭王莽”, has “以汉宗室” as the prepositional phrase modifies the verb “灭王莽”, meaning “overthrew Wang Mang as a Han dynasty royal relative”. The third clause, “即位二年”, has “即位” as the verb and “二年” as the duration complement, meaning “reigned for two years”. English translation: Emperor Gengshi, according to the 《纪》, overthrew Wang Mang as a Han dynasty royal relative and reigned for two years.
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