"Let me say something that's going to really calm you

"听我说几句好让你冷静下来
"so that we can go ahead with this experiment."

"这样我们就可以继续试验了"
And of course we're going to be reading the Declaration of Independence.

毫无疑问我们将阅读《独立宣言》
We're going to be reading the constitution.

我们将阅读宪法
We're going to be reading a lot of documents and letters and

我们将读到许多文件和书信
other kinds of assorted items to really give us a sense of the period,

还有其他类别的文件来感受当时的形势
and at one point I'm even going to bring in a newspaper from the period

我甚至会在某节课带份当时的报纸过来
so that we can actually look at it

好让我们能实实在在地读一读
and get a sense of how people

并真切体会当时的人们
are getting news of the war at that moment.

是如何获取战报的
A lot of these documents we're going to pull from a book called

我们将讨论的这些文件中很多都选自一本名为
Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution,

《美国革命时期主要问题》的书