and ultimately this committee decides it's going to let this slide,

最终委员会决定不追究此事
which is a major concession

这是很大的让步
because burning one of His Majesty's ships is a serious matter. Right?

因为焚烧英国军舰是很严重的事
It's not a minor crime.

并不是轻微犯罪
Even so,

尽管如此
colonists just took offense at the existence of the commission

殖民地者认为委员会的存在是极大的冒犯
which seemed to interfere with the internal affairs of a colony,

就像干涉殖民地的内政
and even worse--this gets back to something

更糟的是...情况又回到了从前
that people have been upset about in the colonies before--

人们对殖民地感到失望的时候
the commission would have sent the people

委员会可以把与英国政府作对的人
who were going to be tried to England for their trials, right?

带去审问
So--and this also feels like a threat to self-rule.

这让殖民地者感到自治权受侵害