and threw 342 chests of tea over the side.

把三百四十二箱茶叶卸下船
A huge number of people watched from the docks and,

一大群人站在甲板上看
as I mentioned before when I was talking about the Stamp Act,

当我提到《印花税法案》
riots and popular demonstrations

骚乱和游行
were kind of a regular part of the system in the colonies.

是殖民地系统的一部分
Riots were not normally chaotic moments of violence and disorder

这骚乱并不是平常的混乱的暴力行为
unless you were shingle-by-shingle

除非你是把印花税征收者房子
taking apart the house of the stamp agent for example,

的木板一块块地拿下来
but usually they were

但一般下都是
almost ritualized demonstrations of protest.

形式化的抗议游行
So what we have here is not a wild riot on these ships.

现在在船上并不是大规模的骚乱
Protestors were so careful

抗议者小心翼翼地