when people organize into small coordinated groups,

当人们组成一些小型协调性组织时
they can have an enormous impact--

它们能造成巨大的影响
and that's essentially what happens here

这就基本是
in the course of the American Revolution.

美国革命中所发发生的
So between 1768 and 1770,

因此在一七六八到一七七零之间
as they begin to contemplate boycotting British goods yet again,

当他们重新考虑如何抵制英国货品时
people begin to form non-importation associations, okay?

人们开始组成反进口组织
Non-importation associations.

反进口组织
Now these associations--these organizations in a sense--

现在这些组织...在某种意义上...
were extra-constitutional,

是基于宪法以外的
so they're springing up from outside of the formal political system,

它们的数量在正规政治系统外快速增长
but in a variety of different ways they actually had some real power.

但他们在某些领域的拥有实质的权力