来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第13集 第13集》

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  That's not really true at all.
  但事实并非如此
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  That's influenced, for example, by the experience of the United States.
  这个想法是受诸如美国历史的影响形成的
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  In the United States, the thirteen colonies,
  在美国的十三个殖民地
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  English was overwhelmingly the language of the thirteen colonies.
  英语较其他语言 曾占据了压倒性优势
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  They are rebelling in 1776 and all of that against
  那里的人们自1776年起开始反抗
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  other English-speaking people who happened to have a monarchy.
  同样使用英语的君主制国家的人民
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  So, "No taxation without representation"
  因此 "无代表 不纳税"这句话
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  really became also a kind of an anti-monarchist sentiment.
  在某种程度上表明了反君主制度者的态度
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  If you think of the Spanish, the rebellions in Latin America
  如果你想想西班牙和西班牙语的例子
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  against Spain, there, too, the rebellions,
  拉丁美洲和西班牙之间也曾有过对抗
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  though there were millions of indigenous people who did not speak Spanish,
  尽管有数百万的当地人并不说西班牙语
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  but basically it was a rebellion of Spanish speakers against a monarch
  但总的来说 这是一场西班牙语使用者