even though the occasional bold statement

尽管有时所用的语言
sort of runs out on an edge

过于偏激
and says 'we hate Parliament.'

例如他们喊道 '我们讨厌国会'
Most colonists thought that the colonists--

大多数殖民地者认为
the colonies were subordinate to Parliament in some way.

殖民地是附属于国会的
The problem, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson later remarked,

马萨诸塞州长托马斯·哈钦森后来
is that subordination, quote,

后来将从属关系评论为
"Was a word without any precise meaning to it."

"一个无明确意思的词"
Okay? That's a really insightful comment.

这是个有深刻见解的评论
Yeah, okay, colonies are subordinate

殖民地是从属的
but what does that mean?

但这是什么意思呢
And obviously what we're looking at now

很显然我们现在看到的