来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第7集 第7集》

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  And part of what I'm trying to say here is:
  我想讲的
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  clearly that's not how the colonists
  并不是殖民地者
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  or the British at this point are thinking.
  或英国人此刻是怎么想的
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  That's not how they understand their actions.
  他们不是这样去决定自己的行动
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  That's not how they understand what's happening.
  他们不是这样看待所发生的事
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  The colonists at this point are not trying to rebel
  这时的殖民地者不是想反抗
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  and they're not trying to retreat away from the British Empire.
  他们也不是想脱离大英帝国
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  They're trying to fix things.
  他们在尝试修复关系
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  They're trying to figure out how to fix things.
  他们在探索该如何去做
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  So in a sense,
  因此在某种意义上
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  the best way to understand the events of the first half of the 1770s
  理解十八世纪七十年代事件的最佳方法
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  is to look at the whole revolutionary era
  是纵观整个革命年代