来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命第7集第7集》

again showing how you have different evolving mindsets here

再此告诉你这其中不同的心态
and they're not necessarily, either one,

他们中的任意一位
understanding what's happening in the other case.

都没能了解对方的想法
So the colonists not surprisingly

自然而然殖民地者
had their own interpretation of the act.

用他们的方式去理解这法案
They actually felt that the act was granting a monopoly

他们认为这法案是要给
to the East India Tea Company,

东印度公司垄断的权力
enforcing the control of the British government

从而加强英国政府
over what they felt like was supposed to be free trade,

对殖民地的自由贸易的控制
so maybe in the future

或许将来
the British would begin to

英国政府还会
control the importation of other goods as well. Okay,

控制其它进口的货物