what the British are doing as well as what the colonists are doing.

所做事情的逻辑所在
Now I will admit right here up front that I will be offering

预先说下我会给你们一些具代表性的
you a sampling of really arrogant British quotes about

非常傲慢的英国人的叙述内容都是关于
crude colonists, and I'm doing that partly because there's just

粗野的殖民地居民我这样做部分是因为
so many good, really arrogant quotes about american colonists

确实有许多这方面的好材料
that I can't resist sprinkling them through my lectures

而且我实在舍不得不提及
and I can't resist that so much

所以我会次要地提到一些
that I have two here that I just randomly added in

我手头现在就有两份我只是随机引用
because I have a reason to and so I will.

并且引用都是有理由的
But it's just--it gives you a sense of how at least some of the British

这起码会让你知道一些英国人
were thinking and looking at really these little

如何看待这一小撮
upstarts on the margins of empire.

帝国边境的叛乱分子