Within a day or two, she gained her husband over, and prevailed [劝说] on the tall idiot to abandon the conspirators and fly [flee] with her to Dunbar. There, he issued a proclamation, audaciously and falsely denying that he had any knowledge of the late bloody business; and there they were joined by the Earl Bothwell and some other nobles. With their help, they raised eight thousand men; returned to Edinburgh, and drove the assassins into England. Mary soon afterwards gave birth to a son - still thinking of revenge.

[柯林斯] Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something.
[LDOCE] showing great courage or confidence in a way that is impressive or slightly shocking
[牛津高阶英汉双解] 1. showing a willingness to take risks; daring; fearless; 2. impudent; recklessly bold
I'm afraid that it's audacious for 牛津 to say "audacious: 厚颜无耻的"

That she should have had a greater scorn for her husband after his late cowardice and treachery than she had had before, was natural enough. There is little doubt that she now began to love Bothwell instead, and to plan with him means of getting rid of Darnley. Bothwell had such power over her that he induced her even to pardon the assassins of Rizzio. The arrangements for the Christening of the young Prince were entrusted to him, and he was one of the most important people at the ceremony, where the child was named James: Elizabeth being his godmother, though not present on the occasion. A week afterwards, Darnley, who had left Mary and gone to his father's house at Glasgow, being taken ill with the small-pox, she sent her own physician to attend him. But there is reason to apprehend that this was merely a show and a pretence, and that she knew what was doing, when Bothwell within another month proposed to one of the late conspirators against Rizzio, to murder Darnley, 'for that [because] it was the Queen's mind that he should be taken away.' It is certain that on that very day she wrote to her ambassador in France, complaining of him [Darnley], and yet went immediately to Glasgow, feigning to be very anxious about him, and to love him very much. If she wanted to get him in her power, she succeeded to her heart's content; for she induced him to go back with her to Edinburgh, and to occupy [live], instead of the palace, a lone house outside the city called the Kirk of Field. Here, he lived for about a week. One Sunday night, she remained with him until ten o'clock, and then left him, to go to Holyrood [不是Hollywood] to be present at an entertainment given in celebration of the marriage of one of her favourite servants. At two o'clock in the morning the city was shaken by a great explosion, and the Kirk of Field was blown to atoms.

Darnley's body was found next day lying under a tree at some distance. How it came there, undisfigured and unscorched by gunpowder, and how this crime came to be so clumsily and strangely committed, it is impossible to discover. The deceitful character of Mary, and the deceitful character of Elizabeth, have rendered almost every part of their joint history uncertain and obscure. But, I fear that Mary was unquestionably a party to her husband's murder, and that this was the revenge she had threatened. The Scotch people universally believed it. Voices cried out in the streets of Edinburgh in the dead of the night, for justice on the murderess. Placards [招贴] were posted by unknown hands in the public places denouncing Bothwell as the murderer, and the Queen as his accomplice; and, when he afterwards married her (though himself already married), previously making a show of taking her *er by force, the indignation of the people knew no bounds. The women particularly are described as having been quite frantic against the Queen, and to have hooted [shout expressing disapproval or scorn] and cried after her in the streets with terrific vehemence [very strong feelings or opinions].

六级/考研单词: prevail, idiot, abandon, issue, proclaim, noble, assassinate, revenge, confide, dare, reckless, bold, scorn, induce, princess, entrust, ceremony, physician, mere, ambassador, entertain, explode, atom, powder, clumsy, commit, render, uncertain, obscure, denounce, indignant, frantic, disapprove, terrific